Overall, an enjoyable read. I always hope that, while reading a novel, that I will learn something. Seeing the world through the eyes of a twenty-something old Irish woman [the age of the author and the main protagonist] should fit the bill and I think that it did. I thought that all the main characters were well drawn, but I really did not warm to any of them. A lot of their behaviour seemed illogical and self-destructive [to me].
An odd thing about the book is that there are no speech marks - i.e. quotation marks around dialogue. This felt a bit uncomfortable. However, as I do not think that I ever got lost, there was clearly no ambiguity, so maybe the punctuation is redundant and I am just being old fashioned.
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