Having already enjoyed The Curious Incident... I was looking forward to this.
It's an entertaining tale of middle-aged crisis and family life with all its ups and downs, told with humour but touching on serious themes: mental and physical health and relationship problems, all focused on a particular family event which may or may not take place. Uncertainty is present until the very end.
Soap-opera like, it's a chunky read, but a light one nevertheless, written in very short chapters, even shorter, mainly fragmentary sentences and full of dialogue. Characters are well-drawn and mostly convincing without being too predictable. The ending resolves fairly satisfactorily, though I couldn't help feeling that some characters were rather let off the hook.
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