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• What an ambitious novel this was. At first I had a difficult time getting into this book, but I'd read such positive reviews, I stuck with it. I'm glad I did. The beginning is hard with the dialect and the switching perspectives. But once working-class Clem and rich girl Frankie met, I was hooked, so much that I didn't mind when the book turned into a history on the Cuban Missile Crisis (because, of course, I wanted to know how it would all come together in the end). The author describes the history of the time with such seemingly authentic detail, I (almost) want to seek out the books he lists in the back as references. All the characters are so richly imagined, provide contrast to one another. The chapter titles are brilliant, providing a bit of wry humor.Was this a love story? Was it a history lesson? The book was both, and it makes you think about how close we probably come to war and yet how far it seems from our daily lives. An intriguing, thoughtfully constructed story.

  4.50 out of 5

  readerspeak

• A man in his fifties reminsces about growing up in rural England, his first love, the Cuban Missile Crises.

  3.00 out of 5

  pmlyayakkers

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