This book was a very sweet love story between two people dealing with their own struggles that all tie back to age in some way. I read this using my grandmother's very well-loved copy and I can say now that I understand why she's re-read this book so many times.

I especially appreciated how Major Pettigrew and Mrs. Ali's struggles of being in an interracial and interreligious relationship is portrayed. I was a little skeptical considering the fact that Helen Simonson is a white woman who - as far as I know - is not Muslim, but it was absolutely not an issue in the end. I found Simonson's writing of Mrs. Ali and her family very accurate to the lived experience of myself and those around me. I also really enjoyed Major Pettigrew's character development over the book!