Rating: 5 out of 5

Utterly gorgeous. Some lovely phrases. And the perfect book to read in the summer sunshine

Highlighted passages:

untainted by the tinnitus of technology.

Portia was every bit as odious as a bowl of rotting offal.

Henry. She could never trust a man who shared his name with a vacuum cleaner.

‘If you never get sadness, how do you know what happy is like?’

snuggled in her duvet cocoon.

her imagination had cut loose, rampaging through reason with party poppers and a silly hat.

These days it was only safe to love him from a distance.

a long and robust marriage where love was rarely voiced, but manifest every day.

he was losing words like a tree loses leaves in the autumn.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account