i like the main character. unlike the rash of enervatingly energetic-slash-charismatic specimens beloved of chick lit authors this one is mostly happy to flow along in her insecurities anxieties and vague dreams. she is even believably quietly uncharitable to people she dislikes. i can totally relate to her.
the pity is that for an anatomy of an unraveling marriage the despair doesn't quite come through. ambivalence short of anguish is rather an anticlimax especially since i enjoy sophie enough to be ready to ride it out with her. and the ending is too pat, as if the writer ran out of pages for her story.
slyly sparkling wit, though, with some really nice lyrical bits. i'm going to hunt out her other books.
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