I don't remember why I have picked this book. It was probably the title, lets be honest, this is a beautiful title. And with a title like that you expect reading something deep, thoughtful and learned some lessons about life. Well... it wasn't that at all. The story felt empty, very slow pace, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but with that pacing you have to compensate with rich thinking or wonderful writing, and in this book there isn't much thinking and the writing is much more ordinary then wonderful. The story is about the live of two women and it really focus on this womanly life, which, as a man, might be why I had a lot of difficulty relate to them, but I do think that if it would have been done better I could have relate to them, it wouldn't be the first time, but clearly it didn't help. Anyway I didn't like it, it wasn't for me and it wans,t a really good book overall!