This was an interesting story featuring members of a diverse community, all living in an area of London in close proximity to the fictitious Victoria Park.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, one for each month of the year and each chapter features one of the various families who make up the community.
It starts and ends with the story of Wolfie and Mona, who are struggling with Mona’s worsening dementia. We also meet Mia and Bettie, a lesbian couple, going through the traumas of IVF in an effort to have their own family. There are many more characters, all well drawn and credible, and they have tenuous links to each other, although each chapter is a short story in its own right. I really enjoyed this book. It’s constructed in an unusual way and contains a lot of characters, which I sometimes find confusing, but not in this case because of the way in which they were introduced.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, one for each month of the year and each chapter features one of the various families who make up the community.
It starts and ends with the story of Wolfie and Mona, who are struggling with Mona’s worsening dementia. We also meet Mia and Bettie, a lesbian couple, going through the traumas of IVF in an effort to have their own family. There are many more characters, all well drawn and credible, and they have tenuous links to each other, although each chapter is a short story in its own right. I really enjoyed this book. It’s constructed in an unusual way and contains a lot of characters, which I sometimes find confusing, but not in this case because of the way in which they were introduced.