Thank you Viking Books for the gifted review copy!
This was a lovely, albeit melancholy, debut novel that I absolutely inhaled. The comparisons to Normal People ring true: a lack of quotation marks (which I absolutely do not mind) and young people who, as time immemorial, make many mistakes and fumble through tough situations while coming of age.
It’s one of those books that’s hard to describe in great detail why I liked it, I just thought it was down to earth and engrossing. Will and Rosie are truly empathetic characters that leap off the page, the tone was hopeful, and I look forward to more of Claire Daverley’s work.

“… and his heart feels fine, for a while, as if it’s beating beneath the drawn curtain, taking time to rest.”