We had a mixed reaction of to this quirky off beat romance between Benny the muddy farmer and Shrimp the grey, cereberal librarian city girl. An easy read, but one where the ending was slightly unsatisfying. Translated from Swedish, we discussed language and the translation and how that impacted on our enjoyment of the book. Some found it clunky and others too coloquial.
There was debate about whether we empathised with the hardworking country farmer or the intelligent, book loving career girl. Neither seemed able to compromise their lifestyle for the other, despite their deep love for each other.
Ovaries featured quite highly in the book, although the Swedes amongst us insisted this wasn't normal conversational topic for them!.
We ate tomato soup and dark chocolate.
"A good book, not brilliant"
Rating 3/5
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