The way that this completely took me by surprise and was better than anything I could have ever anticipated or imagined? I loved, loved, loved everything about this. The characters, the plot, the storytelling and the writing!! The descriptions of nature were so beautiful.

  Points off for the most terrible and frustrating miscommunication to ever miscommunicate - and I don’t know how I felt about the pregnancy plot line.

But this inspired me to read more Eva Ibbitson because she’s sort of onto something.