I
really enjoyed this refreshing and different book about death and a
worrying condition - because of an injury, ten year old Joan has a photographic memory for certain things,
and Gavin has just lost the love of his life. The two come together
because Joan's parents are friends of Gavin and his dead lover Sydney.
When Gavin realises that Joan can remember things Sydney did on his
visits to New York from California, he wants to know everything..... and
that's when the mystery starts - because he made several visits he never told Gavin about.
This is the author's first novel -
and it's a good one. Written in alternate chapters by both Joan and
Gavin and told in the present - I am going; he points; etc, this is just
the right style for the storyline. And how nice to find a book that is
a little different - a love story, but one of an entirely different
kind, with characters I loved too. It's divided into sections headed by
Beatles song titles, and within those sections, each chapter is quite
short. A different style, and a book I kept wanting "just another
chapter" of.
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