The first 1/3 was a little slow for me, I think because the dust jacket blurb and all the reviews give away a key detail you'd be better not knowing. So if you can, go into it not knowing much.

Overall it's a beautiful novel. I felt all the love and longing and nostalgia and regret and hope and fear. The sense of time is especially well done, moving too slowly and then too quickly in a way that works so perfectly with the events of the story. 

The last page or so I maybe would have cut. It seems like gearing up for some kind of possible sequel which I am really not sure about. I feel like this little contained story was too lovely to mess with.