Review: great book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2013
I sat down to read a chapter after dinner and couldn't put it down till I finished it an hour and a half later (ok I'm a fast reader). It's a really good book.  You could call it a `bitter sweet romance' about a young man and woman falling in love in semi-rural New Zealand.  He sees her and knows she's the one.  She takes a little more persuading.  The relationship takes the usual path, with dips and hollows, bumps and leaps - and what's nice about this is that anyone who's been in a few relationships recognises exactly what the story is talking about. It's completely real, even down to the haze in the bedroom Charlie leaves with his overnight farting, and the stubble on Pearl's morning-after legs.  Yet, when you finish the book, you feel like you've read something special.  Every part of the story fits together like an old fashioned cabinet, tongued and grooved with perfect but invisible craft.  What don't I like?  Just about nothing.  Seriously good!