This book is fantastic. But it also broke me. I finished it earlier in the week but I'm still sorting out how I feel.

I think I feel so unsettled after reading this book because I went in not knowing anything about the story. Early on in the book Mr Chetan moves in with Betty and her young son, renting a room to help out financially. Since the book is called Love After Love, I thought I could see where the story was going. Oh man, I wasn't even looking in the right direction!

It is a book about love and it does have many touching, happy moments. But it also has many sad, tough moments. The timeline is never made explicitly clear, but we follow the main characters over a span of 15-20 years, seeing their highs and their lows. 

It's a book about all kinds of love. Romantic love, love between friends, friends who become like family, maternal love, the love you have for your extended family.

Set in Trinidad, the language, the food, the vibrant culture and the history of the Island absolutely shines throughout the book. 

This is another novel where speech is written without quotation marks, or without specifying who is talking. However the formatting separates the dialogue from the main body of the story, and the characterisation is done so well that there were only a handful of times where I wasn't sure who said what.

The characters are nuanced and you can't help loving them. The writing is beautiful and engaging, but do be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster.