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Jul 21, 2017susan_findlay rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is probably not a book I would have chosen for myself (it was part of a reading challenge), but I enjoyed it. It's a bit like reading a soap opera. You meet a wide cast of characters and experience one day in their lives. Most of the plot points are simple everyday life things (dealing with financial woes, finding the owner of a lost horse, trying to freeze green beans, etc.) but the writing is good, the characters are well-developed and realistic, and a wide variety of different types of relationships are explored. This means that, for the first few chapters, you feel like you're reading a collection of short stories rather than a novel (and it takes a long time before you find out the point of the first chapter), but if you give it time everything falls into place.