Rachel Devenish Ford

Fascinating idea behind the main storyline of this with a young traveller thrown into grief and fatherhood all at once. Timothy's journey (as with Prema's in the secondary storyline) was well described in fine detail so the contrast between who they were when the story began and who they became as it ended made heartbreaking and at times joyful sense. The thought of "will Timothy ever move forward enough to make the journey back to Canada with Isaac?" kept me going (although there were many times when the narrative was a little too full with minor details and the pace slowed down too much for my liking).… (mere)