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ladymirtazapine 's review for:
The Improbability of Love
by Hannah Rothschild
I read this book in day. It's clever, unusual, and engaging, with a vibrant cast of characters. It moved me to sympathy for people whom I would never have imagined myself relating to, and I enjoyed the depiction of the Winkleman family as written by a Rothschild.
It also inspired me to cook a lot of fancy food, and to book a trip to Rome to revisit the Carravagios.
My only real criticisms would be that there were a few unanswered questions in Annie's back story and I felt it ended a little too quickly.
Also, the author's conception of what it's like to be poor in the UK, and London especially are comically divorced from reality. Some of the descriptions sounded as though they were inspired by 19th century fiction than by interactions with actual, living people. £5,000 was more than a woman working in London in circa 2014 could imagine? Really? Her stint in India in her backstory would have cost her that much alone.
It also inspired me to cook a lot of fancy food, and to book a trip to Rome to revisit the Carravagios.
My only real criticisms would be that there were a few unanswered questions in Annie's back story and I felt it ended a little too quickly.
Also, the author's conception of what it's like to be poor in the UK, and London especially are comically divorced from reality. Some of the descriptions sounded as though they were inspired by 19th century fiction than by interactions with actual, living people. £5,000 was more than a woman working in London in circa 2014 could imagine? Really? Her stint in India in her backstory would have cost her that much alone.