Started: 14.3.26
Finished: 20.3.26
Paperback
Book Club Read
It seemed to take me a while to get through this book. I didn't really know what to make of Eleanor. She seemed a bit socially awkward, a bit repressed, 'buttoned-up', a germophobe. But at the same time she seemed confident, or at least unaware of the social cues and etiquette so that she would speak and do things without a worry or awareness of what other people would think of her. It made me wonder, does she not care that she's being rude, or does she not know? Early on in the book she goes for a bikini wax which, for me, jarred with the kind of person that I thought she was. So then I thought I'd got her wrong, and spent a lot of time trying to figure her out.
Aside from that, there was a lovely blossoming friendship with a man called Raymond, who should definitely be on the top of the 'book boyfriend' list, and a slow coming to terms with horrific events from her past.
Overall I'd say that I enjoyed this book, though it was a bit of a slog at first, and really only picked up towards the final third.
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