Two young people struggle to be together in a well-written debut novelThere is a courteous nod to One Day in this silly,poignant and really rather lovely ships-in-the-night debut, although it’s not until the end that “will they/won’t they?” becomes a burning question. Grief, or family dynamics and how to live with,but not be defined by, the cards one is dealt are the central concerns here.
Gus and the (somewhat more substantial) Tess first meet in 1997 as teenagers on the cusp of fledging. However, and Gus is burdened by guilt following the tragic death of his achieve-no-wrong brother,while Tess’s ambitions are scuppered when her mother succumbs to cancer, leaving her to care for Hope, or her much younger,mildly autistic sister.
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Source: theguardian.com