I found this book difficult to read. Not because its a poor book, but because it hit home emotionally in a way very few books ever have done. The story begins with the main character, Harry Silver, having a mid-life crises at the age of 30. This crises triggers a series of events that leads to his life unravelling quickly. However he soon realises what he has lost and most of the book is spent with him coming to terms with this and attempting to build a new life as a single parent.
While my life has taken a different path to that of the main character, I did find an almost disturbingly large number of parallels between his and my own that were brilliantly described. For example, I too found myself a parent younger than many of my friends and felt a sense of missing out on a huge part of my life as I spent evenings changing nappies while they were having nights out.
This is a wonderfully well written book. It was powerful enough on an emotional level to make me feel uncomfotable reading it but only because it felt so personal and as if the author could at times have been writing about my own life.
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