Review: "Paula forgot what it was like not to ache, not to feel so tired."
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2013
Adrian had insisted that they move to the country to enjoy nature and fresh air.  At least Paula thinks he insisted. In fact most of her decisions seem to have been yielding to the pressure of others.  And at first, the push to settle I and to take long walks exhaust her.Then she starts the routine of long days alone, while Adrian works the long commute.  She spies only the children, cadging food at strange places.  It becomes a point of discord in the marriage.  But Paula has returned to a more primitive point. The stress of partners meeting themselves comes to focus in the hunger of the children.The author hits that exact moment when a partner looks up to behold her partner is a stranger.  Set in this slightly sinister woods, the relationship is pressed at a primal level that makes this Single a tingle to read.