This was very good, but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been written in a linear narrative, rather than with all the time shifts, which made it difficult particularly at the beginning.
A love affair between Nick, a guy with a rather complex family background, and Anna, a Jehovah’s witness (or some equivalent, as indeed was the author). The two plot lines don’t merge perfectly; Nick’s complex family life interrupts the plot and isn’t that interesting; his relationship with Anna is much more so.
They have a passionate affair, but she can’t marry him because of family disapproval, so marries a witness who she doesn’t love and never appears in the plot. Nick meanwhile has a long term girlfriend to whom he won’t commit, at least to her satisfaction.
Anna, with a small child splits from her partner and goes on seeing Nick sporadically; Laura (Nick’s partner) returns pregnant from an oversees trip, but confesses that the child isn’t his. She, Nick and Laura are free to move in together which they do at the end of the book.
A passionate and well written book about a love affair, but a bit interrupted by less interesting plot elements.
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