Member Review
Review by
Patricia F, Reviewer
Meet Rachel. She’s twenty-one, in platonic love with her roommate, James, who is also a co-worker. She’s also a bit starry-eyed over her professor, Dr. Byrne, who has a wife.
Rachel and James work in a bookshop and Rachel has discovered that the good Dr. Byrne has written a book. She meets his wife at a book signing she has organized and she seems lovely. It’s only later that the weirdness begins.
This book follows Rachel over the course of a year. She falls for another James, the Byrnes are acting strangely and the secret they share is about to blow up.
This is pretty much every twenty-something past. We are a messy bunch at that age. Trying to figure out where we fit in and who we want to continue living with. It’s all trial and error and this reminds me of all of that.
NetGalley/ June 22, 2023, Knopf
Rachel and James work in a bookshop and Rachel has discovered that the good Dr. Byrne has written a book. She meets his wife at a book signing she has organized and she seems lovely. It’s only later that the weirdness begins.
This book follows Rachel over the course of a year. She falls for another James, the Byrnes are acting strangely and the secret they share is about to blow up.
This is pretty much every twenty-something past. We are a messy bunch at that age. Trying to figure out where we fit in and who we want to continue living with. It’s all trial and error and this reminds me of all of that.
NetGalley/ June 22, 2023, Knopf
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