I loved this. Erik Schroder / Kennedy is so human, so fallible. He makes so many mistakes, the worst of which is absconding with his daughter, but I still cared so much for him; kept wanting until the very end for it to come right for him.

Amity Gaige's seeming to address the reader,(the novel is a letter from Schroder to his wife) works really well, and can be a difficult thing to carry off.

And I really liked the ending. He's writing the letter in prison to his ex-wife about their relationship and what happened during the road trip he took with his daughter, not just as an explanation but for see whether she will ask the courts to be lenient. But of course the letter is sent before they go to court...

And the scene of Schroder's final encounter with his father is particularly moving.

Will Collyer read it very well, but my criticism of the audio version is that the acknowledgements came too soon after the book ended, so I wasn't even sure it had ended!