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I enjoyed the first couple of chapters of this book, it set the scene well. The couple were real, their life was poignant and captivating. However I disliked the way the book went forward and backward in time, between the two main characters and their current/previous situations. It didn't pull me in, or get me thinking in a positive way that this style of writing can, making you live their life. I then felt it was too abstract in places to keep my attention, and so the skim-read began to appeal, which doesn't help with keeping my focus.

I really liked the idea of this story, it is surely based on real-life situations the world over: the desperate, rawness, and the unlikely scenario of happy ever after. The embassy experiences were perhaps the most realistic, along with the hospital setting. Anyone who has experienced these scenarios in any way will relate.