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Rate 4/5!

Genre: real life? is that a genre?

Goodreads summary: here

I am incredibly reluctant to call this book ‘light-hearted’, so please understand that when I say this, I mean ‘light-hearted’ prose, by ways of employing non-standard grammar and everyday language. Haddon chooses not to take his writing too seriously. 

This allows for this intense psychological novel to address some very hard-hitting issues: depression, cancer, infidelity, homosexuality…and there’s more - like I said, it’s an intense read, topically. 

Personally, I feel that Haddon handles these subjects in a delicate way, allowing the reader to get wrapped up in the mental whirlwind of the characters, and then occasionally pulling you out of the situation to find the humour in the narrative, before plunging you straight back into these heavy topics. You have to take it with a pinch of salt, but it works.

Although the isolated events seemed pretty predictable, the manner in which Haddon brings them about is somewhat unconventional, and I was always seeking to know more about the round-about lives of the characters!

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I’m off to the states for the weekend so my posts may be sporadic, so enjoy this glorious #shelfie as my day gets away from me! . . I just hit book 2 in The Crow Girl and I’m loving it more and more the further into this intense story I get🙌🏻 . So complex 👌🏼.