Rating: 5 out of 5

Read over Easter holiday weekend in some lovely long reading opportunities (as opposed to a couple of pages before sleep) so had the chance to really get into the story and feel the characters and their love for each other. The characters are well written, their interactions believable and their history appropriate.

Highlighted passages:

‘Even when the people we love are around us,’ said Francesca as she made a sweeping gesture, ‘even then there are times when we all feel alone. And it’s not a nice feeling.’ ‘No,’ said Eva. ‘It’s not.’ ‘But it’s a natural feeling. And when the people we love are around us it passes.

I gave him a hug like my life and his depended on how tightly I managed to squeeze him

Blood may be thicker than water but goodness is thicker than blood,

Originally posted to my Goodreads account