Relief Reads 11d - P.S. I love you

P.S. I love you by Cecelia Ahern
(Reader's Digest edition)

Charity Shop: British Heart Foundation (Newcastle upon Tyne)

Charity: Charity fighting heart and circulatory disease. The BHF funds research, education and life-saving equipment and helps heart patients

Price: £1 (actually I suppose 25p, as I got 4 books in 1)

Book Blurb: When Holly Kennedy's husband dies, she is devastated. How will she go on without him? Answers lie in ten sealed messages that Gerry has left for her. A tale of true love. // Holly, Sharon and Denise have been friends since school. And of the three, Holly has always been the one to do things first: the first to fall in love, the first to get married. But into every life a little rain must fall and Holly is discovering what it is like to be the first to learn life's hardest lesson.

Expectation: I'd watched the film. A really sad story.

Reality: Heart-breaking. It is a story following the grieving process of a young woman. There are light moments along the way as life goes on, but it is always with a twinge of sadness. From the outside Holly seems to be getting on with life and she is, but the inner turmoil continues.

Overall Rating

It was a struggle           2        3        4        5        6        7        8       9      Gripping page  

to make it                                                                                                        turner

It was really sad, but well-written. 

Twist Scale:

Knew the beginning,                                                                                 As twisty as the 

middle and end         2       3        4         5       6        7        8        9      bendy wendy road

from the first line 

One surprise at the end, but it's not supposed to be a twisty story, it is an account of the slow, depressing, process of grief.

Tear-jerker Scale:

 As dry as a house       2        3       4         5         6         7       8        9     Cried an ocean

 throughout

Really sad, but it is an abridged version, so never got too weepy.

Moral of the Story: Losing someone is horrible.

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Coming up: From memory, The soldier's return by Melvin Bragg.