I liked the idea but I felt the character development happened too late in the novel. It also presented the slightly antiquated view that women need men to be happy. Although, having said that, I did appreciate the overall message that happiness and love are the most important things in life. The prose also wasn't anything special but it was perfectly fine.

Lady Caroline should've been a lesbian.  

I liked the overall concept and the stories explored within each chapter. However, I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been. The explanation of the rules regarding time travel became very repetitive as it was reiterated in great detail in every different short story. I also found the writing style simple and clunky in places, but this could be as a result of the translation rather than a fault with the original text.

If you enjoy Virginia Woolf's writing you will enjoy this book. Very little occurs plot-wise but we follow the thoughts and memories of Lady Slane as she reminisces about her life. This has a strong feminist angle, as one of the main concepts Lady Slane grapples with is how her life would've turned out if she hadn't married her husband. Throughout her life she played the role of the perfect wife, and suppressed her own thoughts and personality for the sake of her husband and his career. Now her husband is dead, she finally has the freedom to live and think for herself. This is a gorgeously written novel, relatively fast-paced, that I would thoroughly recommend.

Perfectly good sapphic romance, but for me it relied too heavily on tropes that felt shoehorned in. This story is more about moving on from a breakup than it is about falling in love which I wish I'd known before reading this book. Having said that, I would read a sequel, so it certainly wasn't bad.