For all that this book spanned a lot of time and a lot of character development (or not, depending on the character), I don't really have a lot to say about it. I liked it. Sure. But I didn't love it, I didn't fall into it. The jacket blurb about the book made it seem - bigger - than it actually was. And I'm not sure how. But for all the the book took places over years and across countries, the people in it, their lives and roles, stayed small for me. And maybe that's an accomplishment in writing, but I think it was more of a disappointment. Surprisingly, this was a book about disappointments, in my opinion: Venn's truths (or really the lack thereof, his only consistency being inconsistency), Humphrey's lies that buried his truths, Sarah's absence being her only truth, Duncan's future not being what his past self had really wanted, Paul's best tries for a better life... all of it just left me feeling deflated at the end. The futility of life and relationships, that's what this was about. And though there may be hope for Tooly, after all the blows and harsh truths about her past, that Fogg might be able to "save" her, I just don't know if anything would ever be enough. It was depressing to see what Tooly's life had been shaped into, and how she thought she had made it that way, wanted it that way, when nothing could be further from the truth. An interesting study of people and society leading to a sad realization of what people and society are, and always have been.