What a read!

Orchard has done a great job at weaving tension through the relationships in this novel. It is a stark and honest look at the optimism of 90s feminism, and the flaws within while exploring romantic and platonic relationships and how they shift and change over time.

I really connected with Lara. I really wanted to see Crow as the good guy, the guy who loved his family and worried about his troubled wife. It was almost too late before I saw the red flags Orchard planted, so cleverly were they dropped into the narrative.

What Orchard has accomplished here is something real, because we have all looked away when things are too hard or we don't want to see them for what they really are. We have all been guilty of ignoring things in front of us.