A review by 700poodles
A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron

1.0

Although it did have some finely 'sculpted' details used for characterization (e.g. the two women were made very vivid each in their corresponding shop - Rosemary in the antiquity shop and Eleanor in the hat shop - just by the way they touched things), the novella is gravely underdone. The middle of the book made me cringe with how badly the actual love affair was handled by the writer: every punch-line was predictable, the dialogues and descriptions of feelings devoid of subtlety or originality - it was hard to believe I was reading about the same characters that were so alive in the beginning.
This book was a random pick for a read on the bus, so, no hard feelings from me.