This has been on my reading list for a very long time and perhaps it's been on there too long and hyped my expectations.

This novel has the makings of a brilliant thing. And it has brilliant parts. And beautiful parts, funny parts, incisive well observed parts.

But it felt too big. There was too much going on crammed into not enough pages which ended up making me feel little connection for anyone. It felt like it was striving for an epic domestic novel but it meandered all over the place with little resolution.

I felt little for any characters and those I was interested in disappeared with little air time. It all felt like it lacked a focus for me.