This was my favorite read of 2019. I actually listened to it on audio, and then bought this copy as a gift for somebody else, but changed my mind and kept it.
This is a really long novel, over 600 pages, and I was not that impressed when I first started it. The beginning is not that much different from other stories of immigrant families (in this case Ireland)becoming upwardly mobile in America. But about halfway through it becomes a mystery. Not a whodunnit murder mystery, but a mystery of a different sort. It's one of those books that is powerful not just because of what it shows, but what it doesn't, and what the reader is left to interpolate.
I will be eager to read any more novels Matthew Thomas writes.

Very excited to have discovered this one from First Sentence Wrap It Up Book Box.
Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing, waternixie! Enjoy and pass on. Happy reading.