by Isabel Wolff
What a darling book! I think it got unfairly typecast as a romance novel and thus it missed the praise it deserved. There's romance in it, yes, but there's also loss, suffering, regret, conflict, friendship, mothers, fathers, parenting, and a whole lot of other stuff. It's no more or less a romance than an Anne Tyler novel.
In retrospect, the only fully developed character is the heroine. Some of the other people, most notably the heroine's mother and the older lady Mrs. Bell, got a little extra treatment. But everyone else was a shell person--like one of the bumper posts that your pinball bounces off. They had nothing to do except divert the course of the ball.
So...I guess it was a little shallow in that regard. But I liked it anyway.
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