![]() ![]() It wasn’t icky – Billie had been gone for over a year before anything happened romantically between them. And maybe because of that same understanding of Billie, brief though it was, I never thought that she would disapprove of the pairing. ![]() Perhaps, because Billie had been a real character to me at the start of the book, I was able to sympathise with both characters and not think “oh, just get over it already.”. ![]() Michael’s journey in particular, as he wakes up from being almost completely numb for the first 10 or 11 months after Billie’s death, how he comes to grips with desiring another woman (no matter who it is) and his feeling that he is betraying his wife was very moving. The to-ing and fro-ing of the “I find you irresistibly attractive and want to jump your bones” and “I can’t feel this way, you’re my best friend’s husband/my wife’s best friend” could have gotten tired (and I can see that for some that will be the case) but for me, it was written so well and believably that I was caught up in the pair’s dilemma and it had me in tears well into the book. ![]()
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