When Light is Like Water

by Molly McCloskey

'It is brilliant: her finest book yet' Anne Enright
'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor
'Fresh and raw and completely entrancing' Sara Baume
'Powerful' Edmund White

Alice, a young American on her travels, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. She falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose codes she struggles to crack. And then, in the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course.

After years working in war zones around the world, and in the immediate aftermath of her mother's death, Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? Was her husband strangely complicit in the affair? Was she always under surveillance by friends and neighbours who knew more than they let on?

When Light is Like Water is at once a gripping story of passion and ambivalence and a profound meditation on the things that matter most: the definition of love, the value of family and the meaning of home.

'Adultery is often sentimentalised in fiction, but in her ferociously well written second novel Molly McCloskey gives it to us straight ... Each brilliant vignette offers a new angle on Alice's ballooning sense of disorientation ... In spite of its lyrical title and exquisite prose, When Light Is Like Water is a brutal examination of sexual self-delusion. But it also has much that's memorable to say about love - not the affair kind, but the real thing... McCloskey writes with shattering insight on loss and the way that it can make us feel tender towards the world' Guardian

'McCloskey describes everything with a luminous exactitude ... It's entirely beguiling' Mail on Sunday

'A thoughtful meditation on connection set against the backdrop of a world on the move ... Though McCloskey has no shortage of ideas, she also engages the heart: she's particularly good on the contrariness of our desires ... Fans of Anne Enright will find much to admire and enjoy.' Daily Mail

'Luminous' Irish Times

'McCloskey has the observational eye of the outsider, able to pinpoint the intricacies and mannerisms of the Irish people and landscape. ... But the writing's the thing. Oh, the writing. McCloskey is the master of the metaphor, the doyenne of the deceptively simple sentence. ... Hers is a wondrous turn of phrase, and yet somehow it makes Alice's life and interiority seem all the more real' Sunday Business Post
'When Light is Like Water is as gripping as a memoir and as intimate as a poem. Molly McCloskey has written a novel that is both urgent and reflective, a tender and unsentimental exploration of love's dark corners. It is brilliant: her finest book yet.' Anne Enright

'McCloskey writes with such care and craft; every description of the landscape of the west and the life of her captivating narrator is imbued with poetry and truth. When Light is Like Water is fresh and raw and completely entrancing.' Sara Ba

'A powerful and deeply affecting novel ... In writing that sparkles with intelligence and insight, the ordinary moments of everyday existence are charged with a beauty and tenderness that render them only just bearable' Mary Costello

Praise for Molly McCloskey:
'An extravagantly gifted writer' Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph
'One of our finest writers' Colum McCann
'Every once in a while, a writer's voice hits such a clear note, the resulting book has the kind of sweetness that makes you hold it in your hands a moment before finding a place for it on your shelves. Circles around the Sun is this kind of book: it's a keeper.' Anne Enright, Guardian

Genres: Fiction, Irish Literature

256 pages, Hardcover

First published April 27, 2017

Reviews

[Bettie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Penguin
General Fiction (Adult) , Literary Fiction
Pub Date 27 Apr 2017 | Archive Date 11 May 2017


Description: Alice, a young American on her travels, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. She falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose codes she struggles to crack. And then, in the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course. After years working in war zones around the world, and in the immediate aftermath of her mother's death, Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? Was her husband strangely complicit in the affair? Was she always under surveillance by friends and neighbours who knew more than they let on?

I'm having to let this one go early, which is a shame, because I usually like reading about Ireland.

Points:

- how can two people share a silk cut cigarette, not enough in it for one sad soul

- yet another first-person narrative. Tell me this and tell no more concerning first person writing thang, is it psychologically connected to the prevalence of narcissism in this 21st century? New authors writing as if for a personal blog, or cathartic exercise to tell a therapist? (selfies). And to follow on this track, how will literature progress when self-serving robots come into play in the near future: a lass with two robots will not make for an excitingly readable ménage à trois. (sex).

- feckless, apathetic players

Characters:

'I' (Alice)
Cauley
Eddie

[Elaine Mullane || Elaine and the Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

This book was provided to me by Netgalley and by Penguin Random House in exchange for an honest review. I want to thank both for the opportunity to read this.

Molly McCloskey's newest novel may seem like a simple read given its sparse length, but what is contained within this book's pages runs so very deep. When Light is Like Water is a hugely intimate portrayal of passion, love and the darker shadows both cast on our lives.

Our protagonist, Alice, an American, sits in her mother's condo in Florida after her funeral. She looks back on her life, how its ebbs and flows, and we are drawn into her memories: of being raised alone by her mother in America; of her first summer in Ireland and moving there in her 20s; of meeting her husband, Eddie, in Sligo and their few years together; and her subsequent passionate affair with Cauley, which leads to the crumbling of her marriage. At the same time her affair is revealed to her husband, her relationship with Cauley dissipates, leaving her alone and with the realisation that the feeling of unrest, anxiety and dispassion you sometimes feel in relationships cannot be erased by someone else.

I am not giving anything away here: the author reveals when this book opens that she is no longer with Eddie and alludes to her affair with Cauley. This story is not plot-driven, but more an exploration of the memories and experiences of a woman and how it impacts her life and her future. And it works really well. Alice's narration effectively captures the person she is: at the start, she is aimless, unsteady, cocky almost, but by the novel's close she has been granted a sense of profound maturity and acceptance. Her story is compelling and we are drawn easily into her world, regardless of whether we can relate to her situation or not.

The revelation of Alice's affair, which you would expect to be the ultimate climax of the novel, doesn't have the drama you would imagine. It is dealt with briefly and not given the attention some may feel it warrants, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. As I mentioned before, this book isn't plot driven. We stay with Alice when she recounts the end of her marriage; the exploration of it is insular, as I expected. There is a simplicity to its closing; an acceptance.

As the novel ends, Alice is looking towards the future, having come to terms with what has happened in her life and committing herself to not being bound by the habit of reliving her past. Our changed narrator has a more mature and steady mind, showing a progression that is rare for such a concise story.

I really enjoyed When Light is Like Water. It is a tender and intimate look at love - love for a mother, love for a husband and love for a lover, the value of family and connection, and the notion of home. It is as personal as a memoir and as powerful as a novel twice its size. Beautifully written and wholly absorbing.

[Aoife · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I received a free copy of this book from Penguin Ireland in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a quiet, character-driven story about a woman called Alice and her time married to an Irish man and the affair she has that subsequently destroys the union. I wasn’t too sure what to expect going into this book but it ended up being a rather lovely-told story about a woman who loved her husband but just didn’t quite seem to fit in to married life as well as she thought. One of the things I liked about this book was that there was nothing particularly nasty about it even though the main plot was about the breakdown of the marriage between Alice and Eddie. They both obviously love each other, they just couldn’t make it work and it was a quiet ‘uncoupling’ I guess even though Alice had done a bad thing.

I liked her examination of her marriage and her actions years later following the death of her mother which appears to make her think a lot about the past. I also liked the inclusion of her new friend and confidant Harry, who to me appeared to be a mix between Eddie and Cauley and therefore a perfect romantic partner for her. There is some examination of her relationship with her mother and i liked this as well.

This book isn’t some action-packed crazy tale. It actually reflects its cover a lot - it’s quiet, calm and oddly serene and beautiful.

[Anneliese Tirry · Rating 4 out of 5]

****(*)
Wat een juweeltje van een boek.
Alice, een vrouw van ongeveer 50 (denk ik) verliest haar moeder. In de weken na dit verlies kijkt ze terug op haar eigen leven, naar de periode toen ze aankwam in Ierland (uit de U.S), er verliefd werd, trouwde en alles opnieuw verloor.
Dit boek ademt melancholie. Hier komen geen grote emoties aan te pas, wel nostalgische observaties en een beschouwing van haar eigen daden. Het is een gelouterd terugkijken op een keerpunt in het leven, het keerpunt tussen kind van iemand te zijn en dat niet meer te zijn.
Tussen deze "memoire"-stukken door lees je over de liefde voor haar moeder. Zeer mooi.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. Some great nuggets here of introspective gems. Well presented in context of a travelogue-style story. Really a calm, considered, careful sharing of what counts. I liked it. Especially reonant of a displaced life-chaser myself over 3 continents for whatever reasons. The author EXPLORES reasons from a youthful point of view which is encouraging to anyone on the brink of worldwide expeditions and ruminative for those of us who already have, yet still ask why.

[Roy Hunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book. I found it a bit depressing in places, but that was only because it so accurately depicted our ability as humans to get morally lost and loose all sense of judgement.
I bought this book in Huston station in Dublin, and it is a million miles from my usual reading material; I got it while waiting for a train back to the west of Ireland, a journey Alice, the main character, took many times, back in the 1980's, 'when no one minded the air was fouled with smoke' and you could 'hang your head out (the train window), happy as a dog' (P.1). That was one of the reasons I bought it, the writing was about a place, a time and a mindset that I knew only too well.
And it didn't deceive or disappoint, as many books do.
I was a HGV driver when Alice (this is fiction, remember; but you'll forget that when you're reading the book. You just know this woman existed in real life, but her name might not-probably was not- Alice, but she was someone, someone real, of that there is no doubt; the writing is just too good, too accurate, for any other explanation), hitched lifts on the roads, often getting lifts from lorry drivers. I might even have been one of those drivers (if this wasn't fiction). I admit it, this observation from Alice's memory could have been me, and many more lorry drivers I knew: 'They were like no men I had ever met, both knowing and a little slow, faintly lecherous and yet disarmingly innocent' (p.7).
Basically, its about an affair. About a young woman adrift in life who can't find an anchor. And when she does, in the form of her Sligo husband, Eddie, she lets him go and drifts deep out to sea, where she gets lost.
The book is set in Sligo (where I grew up) and Dublin, where I lived and worked in the late 1970s and early '80s, when I would have been the same age as Alice and met a lot of women like her.
She embarks on an affair in a seedy flat in Rathmines. One time, after making love, she remembers her sense of purpose slipping, she was finding it increasingly harder to make responsible decisions: 'I had a ticket for the evening train. It was nearly five o clock, the sun coming in full across the bed, the air swampy with heat and the sweat of us, and all I could do was lie there. I felt thick as syrup' (p. 115).
'When light is like water' is an accurate description of a time, place and mindset, in my view. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend this powerful depiction of a soul cut adrift. As the biologist E O Wilson said, if aliens ever come, it won't be our science that impresses them (since they came to us, it stands to reason they will be more advanced), it will be our depiction of our humanity: the plays, novels, music and art we have created. It makes sense to add this to the list.

[Eric Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Any tale that describes an American’s permanent move to the UK or Ireland will immediately grab my attention because of my connection to this experience. In Molly McCloskey’s novel “When Light is Like Water” Alice travels to Ireland to live and work there while she figures out what to do with her life. She ends up falling in love and setting there. It’s so difficult to resist the charms of Irish men! However, the majority of the novel relates an account of the dissolution of her marriage through an affair and her present life sorting through her emotionally-broken past. In doing so, McCloskey creates a powerful account of the complexities of Alice’s wayward love life and the difficult grief-laden process of moving forward when she’s lost the people who are closest to her. This novel is a deftly told story of painful heartache told as if looking through soiled panes of glass.

Read my full review of When Light is Like Water by Molly McCloskey on LonesomeReader

[Nicola Pierce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Years ago, I had read and loved McCloskey's memoir, 'Circles Around the Sun' and bought this novel on recommendation from Liz at the wonderful Rathgar Books in Dublin. She has never led me astray and, once again, she was spot on. I really enjoyed this ... so much so that I read it in one sitting. It's about the usual stuff, I suppose: love, identify, family, finding one's purpose on this earth, relationships, past and present and so on but it is beautifully written and almost accidentally becomes a page-turner in that I could not put it down until I had finished it. In places it felt overly reverential about being married but I had to remind myself that this was 1980s along with the young age of the narrator. Highly recommend it!

[Anne Goodwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you’re frustrated with heavyweight plotting and formulaic novels, it’s definitely worth persevering for what turns out to be an intelligent and articulate examination of love, life, ambivalence and home.
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[Dominika · Rating 1 out of 5]

God what a boring book it was. Gave it a chance, but romance/affairs/thoughs on main character love life were the worst, so - about 99% of the book (1% saved for Dublin).

[SueLucie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review copy courtesy of Penguin (UK) via NetGalley, many thanks.

An exploration of the idea of home and whether it can be found or created - birthplace, the parent/child relationship, marriage, friends and work colleagues? The word must mean a different thing to different people in different circumstances, but I sympathised strongly with Alice’s story. Growing up in a one-parent family, her father largely absent from her life, she feels her home is incomplete and goes looking for a place to call her own.

Not long out of college and feeling adrift in the world, Alice sets off from America to see what Europe might hold, landing up on the west coast of Ireland. Here she meets and marries Eddie, and embarks on a serious attempt to find ‘home’ in a soulmate. Who wouldn’t want to settle down with Eddie? Handsome, successful, non-judgemental, generous, he would be easy to fall in love with. He is also overwhelmingly confident of his place in the world and that place is Sligo, which he would never want to leave. Alice, attracted at first to the idea of ‘dissolving’ into his life, cannot in the end fully commit herself to that future. Describing the summer before their break-up, ‘there are things we’re unable to say even to ourselves, things we can only enact, as though we cannot believe they are what we really want until they become the only alternative we’ve left ourselves’. The poignancy of the failure of their marriage is that maybe if they’d met at a different stage in their lives it would have worked, but at the time she needs to explore other options.

Alone again, she spends many years serving with the UN in challenging environments round the world, samples a different kind of home in the institutionalised camaraderie of expatriates, before returning to Ireland to contemplate her next move. The story is narrated from this point in time, a bruisingly honest unpicking of her life during and after the Eddie years, with a keen sense of regret for what might have been. On the upbeat side, she also celebrates a revitalised relationship with her mother, her first ‘home’, and this struck quite a chord with me - the recognition by a child that its parent has a life of their own to lead and that being a parent is just part of that.

I was very taken with Alice’s sobering thought of the narrowing of the available world that comes with age. ‘…I know that, like all children, I overlooked much and took everything for granted, and that even into the early years of adulthood, when I thought about the world at all, in that way, I mistakenly assumed that all of its good, beautiful things would come around again, and then again, and again, until the time was right for me to pluck them. Now, I am old enough to know that there are people I would like to see again whom I have already seen for the last time, there are places I dream of returning to that I will never revisit, and that though a few things do come around again and offer themselves, many more do not.’

A superbly well written, insightful story that I related to on many levels, I’ll be recommending this to everyone I know.

[Caleb Liu · Rating 4 out of 5]

At this this was exquisitely written with sentences that sing off the page. Writing about an affair risks descending into cliche but this book avoids the tired tropes. It’s a book about love and friendship in various facets: her friendship with an older colleague later in life as she remembers her marriage and affair; her relationship and love for her mother (arguably the person she most loves), the initial love in a marriage that not so much goes stale as is carelessly neglected, the thrill and abandon of the affair.

I appreciated how this was written with a sense of somewhat nostalgic reflection, with the protagonist having seen the unspeakable horrors humans are able to inflict on each other. This book is an attempt not for her to seek absolution but to try and understand her younger self. The recklessness, the fullness of desire. And to look on that self not without a little longing.

But I would read it for the beautifully crafted words alone.

[Julie Round · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice writing style, dull book.

[Brooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

the story made me sad but the writing was so so so good

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I decided to read something different from the usual thrillers and historical fiction. When Light is Like Water by Molly McCloskey sounded like the right pick for me and I liked the setting. I have read a few books set in Ireland and liked most of them. This book is mainly set in Dublin, Ireland. However, I was surprised when I found mentions of my country and city. Nairobi features briefly in the story but it was still good to read names of places that I know. There were also mentions of Daadab in Kenya which is one of the biggest refugee camps in the world. My only issue is that, it sounds like the camp is in Nairobi which is not the case. Dadaab and Nairobi are about 12 hours apart (by road). However, the inaccuracy didn’t bother me much since Kenya wasn’t the main setting of the book.

The story is narrated from Alice’s perspective. It is not chronological and this bugged me a bit. I mean it can be confusing when a character dies on one page and then they are alive on the next one. However, the story is narrated through flashbacks hence the ‘back and forth’ order. In addition, Alice has conversations in present that brings memories from the past. I think this is what we do in real life. Our memories are up and down(all over the place). Different things spark different memories. After the initial confusion, I soon got the hang of it and started enjoying the book.

This is a slow-paced book that makes you think about life and what it means to be truly happy. Alice talks about her marriage, affair and the yearning for something better. You know how at times we sit and wonder if there is something out there that is better than what we have. Not just in terms of relationships but even careers, homes, cars…everything really. Even if things are going great, sometimes you may wonder if they could be better than just great. This is what Alice’s affair made me think about. There are other things that she said that made me smile. For instance; she talks about meeting an ex and remarks about how sometimes, the feeling that we get from such encounters is not nostalgia but it is actually foolishness. I know that feeling…the… what the hell was I thinking that comes when you think/see an ex at times.

Alice is the kind of character who is easy to dislike. However, I liked her. I found her to be relatable. She made mistakes that made her seem selfish at times but at the same time, too err is human, right? I thought the book depicted the realities of life. I may not agree with her decisions but I understand why she made them. I sympathized with her. She seemed so lost. Apart from marriage and affairs, the book also covers mother-daughter relationships. The relationship between Alice and her mom was mostly sad,complex but I liked reading about it.

Slow paced novels have always been a challenge for me and I did struggle with the pace. However, I still enjoyed the story. The themes of love and life were so well portrayed. It was easy to sympathize with Alice despite her flaws. The writing is beautiful. Unstructured but it still had a flow to it. It felt like Alice was seated next to me, just talking about her life and I enjoyed listening to her although hers was not a happy story.

[Catherine | Катя · Rating 2 out of 5]

(a)

Reading ‘When Light Is Like Water’ felt strangely familiar, almost like walking through a version of Dublin that’s both real and emotionally heightened. I loved recognising street names and settings — there’s something grounding and intimate about seeing a city you know mapped onto someone else’s interior world.

What stood out most was how precisely McCloskey observes the emotional architecture of a relationship. She captures, with quiet accuracy, the dynamic between the narrator and Eddie: the pull between them, the mismatched emotional openness, the way he held back even as she was being undone by the intensity of it all. The book sits in that ache — in the tension between what is felt deeply and what is never fully spoken.

At times, I found myself wishing for more exploration of how the narrator’s exposure to other cultures and her constant travel for work shaped her inner life. Those elements were there, but more in the background, and I would have been interested to see them woven more tightly into the emotional landscape. Still, the story conveyed clearly how consumed she was, how the imbalance in expression and vulnerability affected her.

What stayed with me most were the lines — McCloskey’s writing is full of small, devastating truths. A few of my favourites:
• “The breeze was almost balmy.”
• “The largeness of life.”
• “The longing of lovers.”
• “The ghosts of our unchosen future.”
• “To commit to love is to commit to love’s diminishment.”
• “I tried to think very hard of him, as though I could blow a hole right through him & disperse him like pollen, & drift away.”
• “Weak with the want of him.”
• “Keepers of a truth so shattering, we didn’t dare speak it.”

Even if I didn’t connect with the story as fully as I hoped, the prose lingered — quiet, lyrical, and full of emotional aftershocks.

[Flavia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautifully, and evocatively, written story about our connections to place and the flickering, slippery nature of love, belonging, memory and nostalgia. I found the complexity and disconnection of the narrator to be extremely convincing even as she seems determined to dismantle and destroy her life/home. The novel is also about place, about the light and touch of Ireland upon her life. When she returns, she returns to a modernising Ireland (new roads are being built while she tries to piece her life together again) and although we do not follow the narrator to the poverty stricken, war torn countries she travels to (in an attempt to keep her own self destructive tendencies at bay, the pain of others silencing/numbing hers?), these become embedded in her consciousness and a part of who she is.

I found this to be such a tender mother-daughter love story, written in first person, I was very much taken by the softness of the narrator’s thoughts (especially when they were counteracted by a hardness of action), the lack of accusation, the simple acceptance of her restlessness. The sea metaphor comes into play here - its fluidity connecting places and people, the light on its surface sparking emotions buried deep (initially the narrator is unable to understand her mother’s joy in the short lived beautiful sunsets over the sea – until suddenly she does); a mirror reflecting back the light as the narrator attempts to replay her past back to herself to find meaning and self awareness in order to free herself and move forward.

[Anne McLoughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much to say about this book I don’t know where to start. Basically it’s the story of an American girl who comes to Ireland, marries an Irishman, has an affair that wrecks her marriage. Gets into freelance journalism covering stories around the world but ends up back in an Ireland that has moved on. That doesn’t do it justice, there is so much more to this book. It is beautifully written exploration of the human condition, love, the build up and breakdown of relationships, largely due to bad communication, the meaning of family and home. The time jumps were a little confusing, but it was so lovely that it didn’t take from the enjoyment. The writer has a great eye for the small details that tell a lot and her handling of location in Sligo and Dublin had the reader there, as did her description of Nairobi with guards patrolling the high-walled gated houses and the sound of distant gunshots conveyed the air of danger in the distance. I loved this book.

[Joana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hadn't listened to an audiobook in a long time and maybe because of that I was feeling a bit disconnected from this story for the first half of this book. I warmed to it later and felt that the narrator's intentions were clearer towards the end. But even then I wasn't quite sure what this was about. A young american woman moves to Ireland temporarily but ends up staying and getting married. Then the marriage is a disappointment and she has an affair that also ends , but perhaps the most vivid parts are about her mother's death and the effect it had on her. It wasn't terrible but I can't say I was invested.

[Karen.s · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beauty of a book. Such evocative language. If you don't like character studies, this book is not for you. There's very little plot. It is a woman reflecting on her life and choices that reads in such a real way, with writing that knocks your breath out with its honesty. She expresses the thoughts we may all have from time to time (at least I hope we all do) but don't express to anyone.
The end, despite the short length of the book, drags a bit. I guess I was expecting a deeper emotional examination her actual infidelity, but this was the more plot driven element of the book.

[Colette Moss · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book on a Goodreads giveaway. I was confused at the start as the story kept jumping from the past and the present.However, it did make sense the more I read. I did feel that there's still some unanswered questions, that needed to be answered. All in all the book kept in engrossed. Finished it in less than one day. As I couldn't put it down

[Amyrose Forder · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book in work in the quiet moments over a couple of shifts, as I was curious to read McCloskey. What I got was a warm, tender story of Alice and Eddie. The descriptions of Dublin were a bit cliche and I found the Harry plot line a bit unnecessary, but overall a quiet read which left me pondering the direction my own life will take.

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well written, the use of language was incredible. I just wish it had spent more time with the narrator's motivations- the reasoning was skimmed over as if unimportant when mentioned at all. It would have really helped to deepen her character.

[Just This · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was ok

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review in TLS forthcoming

[Jen Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing! I love Sligo and the descriptions are amazing. Strongly written!

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

A love story set in Ireland, this flows beautifully and truthfully into love's treacherous waters and precious moments. I loved it!

[Jolette · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have neglected Irish literature for far too long....

[Anita · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very small quiet book but I enjoyed it very much. Excellent character development and very relatable s

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5