A review by booksbythecup
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

3.0

The book is told in alternating time periods, starting off with an intriguing story of young Ernest (1909) and how he ended up in Seattle at the World Fair, events changing the course of his life. The story jumps to the present day (1959) and you know Ernest’s life has changed a lot, his wife Gracie seems to have Alzheimer’s and he’s just taking things on day at a time. The back story lays the ground work for the present story but after a while I just felt a bit restless, it seemed to take too long for the story to fuse together.

It usually doesn’t take me this long to finish a book.

Received ARC via @netgalley in exchange for honest review.