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Margaret Holloway
Margaret Holloway
3.4
Well-intentioned and readable, and the central conceit is genuinely moving.

My reservations are about the prose, which tends toward the aphoristic in a way that I find reductive — complex emotional truths compressed into sentence-length insights that feel true only until you look at them closely. Haig is clearly a compassionate writer and this book has helped a great many people, which matters. But as a novel rather than as a piece of therapeutic writing, I wanted more resistance in the material.

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Moving