A review by tristesse
Table for One by Emma Gannon

3.25

Willow is leading a perfect life. She has moved into a new home with her long-term boyfriend, Dom, and their business is skyrocketing. The only thing left is to build a family, and it looks like Dom will propose soon, considering the stability of their lives right now.
But life has a funny way to throw you off course. Suddenly, Willow needs to learn how to be content with being alone, feeling lost and unfair, but it's just might be the start of rediscovering herself.

"Women, especially young women, are made to feel like this a lot, like they have to wait for someone else to take the lead. To tell them where to go, how to navigate difficult paths. It is something that a lot of us pick up as children through subtle social clues."


The book is enjoyable, but not great. I love Willow as a person, I resonate with her feelings and confusion as someone in early twenties. The thought that you had your life all figured out only for it to be ruined, the helplessness, the frustration.. I find it so relatable. It is also the accurate depiction of best friends where one is single and another is taken, how Willow kept putting her boyfriend above Pen, yet when it's the other way around, she feels so betrayed.
The closure or the lack thereof feels so real. I get the author is trying to get this message of loving our own companion across, and I agree, but sometimes I can't help this longing to have one great relationship as my anchor in life. I am also not a fan of the characters' names in this book, they feel short, a bit odd, that it comes off as lazy. But other than that, I recommend checking out Table for One! I feel like a lot of people will find it more entertaining than I did.

Thank you HarperCollins UK for the ARC in exchange of honest review!