This is a wonderful heart-warming book full of great
characters and a really lovely story line that I would love to be true. This
book has absolutely captured my heart making me so invested in the characters
that I have cried laughed and loved every minute of reading it. It is very much
unlike the books I usually read however it has made me want to read lots more
books like it; I expect I will be starting with the books mentioned on the back
of the book.
The main characters are Millie, Karl and Agatha; these three
characters are very different and you wouldn’t really expect them to come
together in any way but they do. Millie is a young child who has lost her mother;
she meets lots of issues on her journey to finding her mother as well as
meeting Karl and Agatha who try to help her on her adventure. Karl is a man
suffering from the loss of the woman he loves; he fills his time by tapping out
words on surfaces as if typing on a keyboard, this is his way of communicating
with the woman he has lost. Agatha is a woman suffering from the loss of her husband;
she fills her time by measuring the changes in her body as she ages as well as
running a social commentary to herself of the people passing her window. In an
unlikely turn of events the three main characters find themselves brought together
by Millie searching for her mother. This heart- warming story brings together
three characters from different aspects of society all suffering from a loss
and helps them find something that could affect their lives entirely.
The secondary characters in this book are very fleeting as
the book very much centres around the three main characters. There are in my
opinion no secondary characters that I feel are noteworthy since they aren’t in
the book for very long; but the lack of secondary characters I feel does not
diminish the reading experience at all since the main characters are superbly
written and they cover all aspects of society.
The pacing is fantastic giving readers a perfect amount of
time to get to know and love the characters before swapping to another POV. The
pacing also gives us a real time perspective of the time taken for these
unlikely characters to come together; this is especially apparent in the
chapters based on Agatha’s POV since she regularly recalls the time.
The storyline is brilliantly original and unlike anything I have
ever read; while the story is very much centred on the main characters and
their approach to life there are still numerous other things happening
throughout this story which adds to the characters experience and interactions
with fleeting secondary characters.
I have loved reading this book 5 stars
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