This was one of those books that I picked up without actually knowing what it was about (which happens less often than it should) and then found myself continually surprised by how the story played out. I was never quite sure what it would turn into, which added to my enjoyment of it. Fowler's handling of the family story where the novel slowly plays out the narrative of what happened in the past and how the main character became the woman she was is handled with surprising deftness and the combination of Fowler's empathy for Rosie and her sense of when to reveal what she knows makes for a good read while the shift that Fowler makes in making the book is what moves it up from a three to a four.