Read this book cos I wanted a light more up to date read after reading Jane Eyre and War and Peace. Ha, Ha, got it wrong, yes it was more up to date, but more intense issues in this book than I’d bargained for!

I enjoyed the book, but have a couple quibbles with it. This book has a time scale and a clear sandwich ideology, (tells you about it on the cover - nice bits at the beginning, horrible bits in the middle and a nice happy ending for everyone - or everyone that is female that is!)

The author has either decided to take poetic licence re medical facts or didn’t bother to make even rudimentary research into the illnesses she is supposedly describing. Someone’s mother has dementia, which is described all through the book as “Strokes”. She even expressly uses medical terms (TIA) and gets it wrong! I also got the impression that maybe things in other areas were speeded up to fit the book.

It was a nice read, is probably best suited to females above 30 years old. It does express some very clear values regarding abortion and marriage etc and brings up loads of issues and would provide lots of discussion in a reading group.

Now at least I know how to answer the question “Is your book club like the one in the Reading Group?” Answer being Yes, but the people don’t all have their problems at the same time and we do have some people who aren’t going through major life crisises occasionally!