Throughout this novel I have enjoyed the style of writing and how innovative the layout of the narrative was; this made the character building of our protagonist interesting and easily to delve into without getting bored.

The first half of the novel was mainly building up a sense of character of Ursula, showing her difference to young girls of that time period. I particularly loved the bond between Ursula and her father, demonstrating the love and compassion of Ursula (as that at times may be hard to see). At some points I didn't really get along with Ursula's character, probably due to her strong-willed nature her father built up in her childhood. But once I looked past that and when Crowhurst expanded the narrative I felt a connection to Ursula, she was just a young girl being forced into something she knew nothing about.

I found all the characters diverse and interesting. I definitely feel this novel is about the character since thinking about it, not a lot happens in terms of narratives:
Ursula is born.
She is taught by her modern minded father.
Mother is cold.
Ursula writes plays for her friends.
She develops a crush on a friend's cousin, the cousin moves away not after kissing her and giving her a 'sweetheart gift'.
Ursula is taught some more.
She's introduced to arranged marriage.
She gets married, lives unhappily until she goes to London with her husband and bumps into her girlhood crush.
They have an affair and elope. Then the bastard dumps her with no money and doesn't have the guts to tell her himself.
Ursula then gets into acting to pay the bills, finds out shes pregnant, carries on acting, gives birth and sends the child to a friend who she visits often.

That's in a nutshell the book. But between those plot points holds a narrative of humour, wit, frustration - essentially Ursula's inner monologue. The ending for me was a little disappointing - I felt with the magnitude of Ursula's story the ended should've been more phenomenal. Though, that's not how life works. I guess it imitates life, a life that goes well. She got what she always wanted - to be a successful play write - but got some bumps and bruises along the way. The letter from his little sister really topped the cake for me - it not only made a great conclusion to the novel but had some sort of closure for Ursula as to why her mother never answered her letters and her isolation from her family.

All in all, a lovely read I would recommend to anyone.