At the same time, it is just one page-turner. Javais appreciated, there thirty years, the first books of William Boyd, an Englishman in the tropics and as snow in the sun. They had that freshness and spontaneity that now have turned into solid professionalism, expertise in set in stone in a format bestseller awaiting his movie adaptation (in this regard, jy would see Cate Blanchett in the role Deva / Sally and Gwyneth Paltrow in her daughter, Ruth, Colin Firth in that of Romer.
So if you want to read something dinoubliable, maybe is not quite it. But if one is looking solid for a good time, that's what it takes.