State of Happiness - Stella Duffy

I read this on aeroplane and wish I hadn't - I cried! I had to sniffle away quietly at one or two places in order to not attract any attention. It is such a moving book and one I came across completely by chance. This is the first book I've read by Stella Duffy, although I do own another one and I am really looking forward to reading that. In the beginning, the characters don't seem real, quite one dimensional. Suddenly, they become very different and I can't put my finger on what it was but I became hooked. That could well have been due to the fact that I was a captive auidence to a certain extent as I had nothing else to do for my two and a half hour ...  Read the complete review