Despite the quirky cover and the '13 going on 30' (or 16 going on 40) premise, this was solid literary fiction that interrogated all the big questions. Its knowing references to the 'Back to the Future' tropes prevented it getting too bogged down in its own dynamics, but it still lacked cohesion in many place - and the characters (which included New York) weren't particularly interesting. But, overall, a fun and thoughtful read.
54%
10.06.23
I've never read (or seen) The Pursuit of Love, of which this is apparently a modern interpretation, so I might have appreciated this more if I had. But, taking it at face-value, it's a colourful and, at times, amusing, tale of a rather self-absorbed and entitled family living in a strange version of North Norfolk I'm not familiar with. Nobody was particularly interesting and the last page was literally a 'WTF?' moment that seemed abrupt and entirely pointless (although I expect the original book ended in a similar way). Nice cover, though.
