This was quite a difficult book; I have read it before, but assume a long time ago. But as it progressed, I enjoyed it more and it is worth a re-read.
What is very difficult is that the structure is alphabetical (each chapter has a geographical (town/city name)), but the chronology leaps randomly around from Anzio 1944 – father injured in war meets mother; to Backley 1950 father and mother in suburban England, child is born; Colombo 1980 , son, now adult, working ) and backwards and forwards.
This was very hard work initially, but the book improved as clarity slowly emerged, and it is coherent by the end. But an unnecessarily complex way to manage basically a fairly simple plot about a slightly confused young man who meets a woman he loves (not reciprocated), and marries another, and cannot completely reconcile matters.
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