If you love language and beautiful prose, then this is for you. Beginning with an injured soldier on a battlefield in France so begins a journey of fragmented moments and memories throughout several generations. It’s quietly beautiful in many ways, and I loved the idea of these many lives, connected yet disparate, all existing but with all these hidden moments. It reminded me very much of how when I’m doing family history research I know these salient points but I’m left to piece together the in between. 
However, despite the positives it did lack an emotional catch for me, it felt a little too fragmented and bitty and I struggled to make an emotional connection.