Given to me by a friend who knows me well enough to know that I love reading but not well enough to know that I hate romance books.

I am taking it to the "Waste Not Want Not" event to give away.

I am sending it out on the Life or Death Bookring.

Taken as part of the Life & Death bookring as have enjoyed books by Anne Tyler in the past.

*Warning - spoiler alert!*

This was a curious & compelling little read. Teenager Evie becomes obsessed with a local singer Drum Casey & their lives become entwined after she carves his name on her forehead (or does she? I'm not quite clear on that) Evie's only goal seems to be furthering Drum's career & they seem to have a strange relationship which results in their marriage, despite the apparent lack of real affection between them. The story concludes with the death of Evie's father & the unsurprising - to me anyhow - break up of their marriage with Evie returning to her father's home, alone & pregnant. However this does seem to bring things full circle with Evie potentially bringing up a child alone as her father did.

A sad but at times sweet yet unsettling story & while I liked it I can't help feeling I've missed the point of it!

Left in a changing room

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