Rating: 4 out of 5

This was a book that a friend told me about. It was a good story, with a bit of a weak ending, but with amusing characters. Enjoyable

Read at some point during March

Highlighted passage:

Even in her daydreams, she wasn’t the type to be unfaithful.

When there weren’t any calls, she made a teenager’s bargains with Fate: I won’t think about it, and then the phone will ring. I’ll go out of the room; I’ll pretend I’m busy and the phone will ring for sure.

As always, he’d worn tomorrow’s underwear to bed and placed tomorrow’s clothes conveniently at hand.

The glasses made his face seem crisper, less vague around the eyes, as if they had corrected Delia’s vision rather than his.

a parent is always thrilled, always dwells so lovingly on your face as you are speaking.

First a time alone, then a casual acquaintance or two, then a small, undemanding animal. Delia wondered what came after that, and where it would end up.

it’s kind of like I lack imagination. I mean, I can’t seem to picture marrying a man till I see him married to someone else. Then I say, ‘Why! He’d make a good husband for me!’

She had always disliked Christmas, with its possibilities for disappointing her family’s secret hopes,