The novel is structured in flashbacks that detail their initial attraction, their mutual devotion and the sudden, shattering breakup that devastates them both. The core of the novel is, without question, the ballad of Harriet and her ex-fiancé, Wyn.
Admittedly, Sabrina, Cleo and their counterparts don’t come through as sharply as the two leads, their motives mostly a mystery until the final chapters. Most of Henry’s books focus on two characters, but this ensemble piece presents female friendship in all its warmth and woundedness, blessedly absent of misogynist tropes of jealousy and pettiness. It is, in many ways, the least 'happy' of her works, less swooning and more longing, with a sense of melancholy permeating throughout.
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