Hmmm. I just couldn't see the point of this novel at all. And I know that that's actualy kind of the point of holiday reads (and indeed I picked it up in the villa we were renting in Tuscany) but still... it kept me hanging on for something, but then didn't deliver it.

It's also an interesting observation by other reviewers here that the older woman having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy seems to be considered "sexy" and "seductive" while the alternative of a 40-something-man and a teenage girl would have been a very different novel indeed.

All that said, I think the writer is capable of a lot, lot more so maybe I'll try some of her other books.