" Three and a half stars for me: likable characters (as usual the most interesting characters are beyond the flush of youth). In this book they are Lottie and Milo, who have lived together for years as brother and sister, and Milo's lover, the formerly glamorous and still flirtatious-at-70 Venetia. The main characters, however, are Imogen, who longs to buy the summer house she has loved since childhood, improvident Nick (Milo's son) who is ready to trade in his difficult wife for Imogen, and Imogen's big brother Matt, who is haunted by half-memories and by pictures of himself he does not remember. The three different plot threads are nearly, but no quite, tied together, and I think there is room for a sequel. Is it possible there is change to come in the relationship of warm-hearted Lottie and typically British Milo? The book is somewhat reminiscent of Willett's _Memories of the Storm_ in its depiction of family trauma only fleetingly remembered, and of the Chadwick Chronicles (_Looking Forward_, etc.) in its protrayal of three young people whose lives are changed and intertwined, but without its satisfying sense of completeness. "
— Carolynne, 2/15/2014