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I really loved this novel, much like I loved How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life , which I read first. Having lived in Cambridge for 2+ years, I think that Medwed incorporates the city as part of the character, but somehow she does it better than other authors I've read in the past (like Jennifer Haigh, for example). You get a sense that Medwed's writing actually breathes authenticity. Moreover, her characters are likeable, funny, complex and real. Her literary allusions are not meant to be showy or over-the-top, but really add to the meat of the story.

The ending might have been a little too tied together for me, but it's fine--I thought it was cute, and it definitely made me LAUGH.