Married life for Cait and Matt has become, tea, biscuits and the latest boxset.
Gone is the romance, the love, the respect.
It is replaced with resentment, loathing and routine.
Surely after 30 years together there must be something which is holding them together.
Cait cannot see what it is and when an old flame gets in touch, everything is thrown up in the air.
Matt on the other hand discovers that being made redundant
Cait feels she is missing something and when Matt suddenly retires, he can’t find what he wants to do – let alone be.
What follows is a journey as we watch this relationship go through peaks and troughs as they recapture the past, look to the future and be ever present. The secondary characters, of Cait’s good friends, Lorna an Debs add some grounding to the storyline. But when it comes down to it, the only two people that are going to be able to do anything are Cait and Matt.
For me this book seemed to not go anywhere, we were watching the challenges of a relationship which was by no means interesting just ordinary. Perhaps that is the appeal. But I could not relate to very much in the book and I think that is why I struggled with it. From other reviews many will relate to it so don’t be put off by my perception of the book.
Not all books work for the reader.
Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the opportunity to read this book.
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