OK...this book isn't for everyone: four lonely(ish) people (they wouldn't describe themselves that way but they would definitely describe each other that way). Approach and cross over from working life into retirement. For some the transition is smoother than others.

It wasn't what I was expecting. and when I was so angry at everyone in the book (I won't tell you why because it would really spoil it), I realized that the author had so meticulously crafted the story that the reader had made all of the exact same assumptions that the various characters in the book had. She had made the reader complicit in that event.

It is pure genius but not the most entertaining read.