Lots of twists and tales - takes a few chapters to get into as it chops about a bit but stick with it!

Picked this up at the London Meet Up last night..... mainly because someone (sorry dont know who, as it was my first meet) was raving on about it saying how good it was.... Will add to Mount TBR and get to it soon

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Sending to WormyOne as a RABCK

Hope you enjoy it :o)

Thanks CaffCaff. This is such a great title for a book. I'm really excited about reading it.

This book is about the minutea of ordinary life. It's about death, twins, parent-child relationships, love, sex, friendships that seem forever when you're young but surprise you by fading and straining with distance and time. But mostly it's about the way we live in a modern city: on top of our neighbours without knowing each other at all, overlooking the beauty in the details around us.

I liked it but have one criticism. The author has created a tension by referring to a terrible incident in the past of the narrator all the way through but not telling the reader what that was until the end. There's no real reason for keeping the incident secret other than to create this tension and this seemed to me to be a weakness. Perhaps the story wouldn't be strong enough without this artificial tension.

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I left this in the waiting room on platform 5.