This is true. There's a lot going on under the surface of their
marriage, too -- she makes more money than he does even though he has
two jobs, to name just one thing, which gets brought up at a key
moment of tension between them. I enjoyed Catriona in her way, even
when she was occasionally a really bad parent (telling Awful she
wished she'd never had her, yikes). But Quentin, boy I don't know. I
started out indifferent and by 3/4 of the way through, had nothing but
disdain for him. I can't even put my finger exactly on why. Though tbf
his story of finding baby Howard in the snow was one of his best
moments.
It's a funny little book, with these two family groupings running
side-by-side, both plagued by selfishness and infighting and general
antisocialness in their own ways. Though I suppose it says something
that the parents were not included in the
send-all-the-most-unpleasant-relatives-off-on-a-spaceship solution,
lol.
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Date: 2021-06-20 03:35 am (UTC)This is true. There's a lot going on under the surface of their marriage, too -- she makes more money than he does even though he has two jobs, to name just one thing, which gets brought up at a key moment of tension between them. I enjoyed Catriona in her way, even when she was occasionally a really bad parent (telling Awful she wished she'd never had her, yikes). But Quentin, boy I don't know. I started out indifferent and by 3/4 of the way through, had nothing but disdain for him. I can't even put my finger exactly on why. Though tbf his story of finding baby Howard in the snow was one of his best moments.
It's a funny little book, with these two family groupings running side-by-side, both plagued by selfishness and infighting and general antisocialness in their own ways. Though I suppose it says something that the parents were not included in the send-all-the-most-unpleasant-relatives-off-on-a-spaceship solution, lol.