So I was particularly looking forward to reading this book as I've not read anything set in the 60s before but, not going to lie, I was quite disappointed. First impressions: I thought it was going to be a light-hearted romance possibly with some aspects of real life from the author. A lovely little insight to one person's view of the 60s. Though I almost got that I found the pace slow, writing a bit odd (when someone is explaining a story to another character they still say "blah blah blah" he said. Like they are writing the book which is not like actually conversational story telling at all so it completely through me off) and the story lacking in any adventure, mystery, romance, anything really. It was like there were multiple possibilities for a really good story (eg. the life of Sandra and Danny, the life of Sylvie, or the romances of Linda) and instead it was trying to hard to include everything. There were a few moments where I really appreciated the story regarding Tap and a romance almost blossoms on Linda's birthday at his work but then on the night he see's Ray, he's not really mentioned again for quite a few pages. In fact I think it was around 100 pages. I guess some people may like this book but I'm sorry, this one just wasn't for me. I found it really difficult to keep on reading when really I just wanted to put it down and pick up another and because I stopped myself from doing that, I'm now in a reading slump.