Delighted to include this title in the June edition of Novel Encounters, my column highlighting the month’s most anticipated fiction for the Books section of Zoomer, Canada’s national lifestyle and culture magazine. (see column and mini-review at link)

DNF - The synopsis of this book really drew my interest. I'm sure other readers will truly love this one but I don't think it was the right time for me to try & read it. Ultimately, I wasn't able to get very far until my mind began to wander. I will try again at a future date.

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley, which I am quitting at 15%.

I almost quit before I got started when confronted by the extremely long Cast of Characters. There were parts of what I read which were amusing or interesting, Mrs Voyles, the sitting tenant, and the floating timeshare hotel the main protagonist's mother-in-law is living in, for example, but the rest of it was people bouncing apparently intellectual arguments off one another, and name dropping real life famous people and places. I was persevering until I got to a section from the perspective of Travis, couldn't remember if we had met him before, couldn't understand how he fitted in to the story so far, and didn't like him enough to care what he got up to.

Not for me.