4.5 | I loved Agnes and I loved this book right up until the very end. This isn’t a spoiler because it’s discussed on the dust cover, but the section where they lose him is just so well written and breathtakingly painful. I cried deeply. As well as the twins birth scene. I did not however find the end all that satisfying. It felt like when the author mapped out the book she decided that needed to be the final line and how the story should end - but the story itself didn’t really take us to that conclusion. I’d hoped that we would end with Agnes’s vision of her on her deathbed, as discussed throughout the book.