Rating

★★★★★

Category

literature

Read

2019-12-24

Pages

273

Can’t believe I’m giving top marks to a book about awkward teenagers, but here we are. Characters and writing are phenomenal.

He finds himself rushing to the end of the conversation so they can hang up, and then he can retrospectively savour how much he likes seeing her, without the moment-to-moment pressure of having to produce the right expressions and say the right things.

This quality of discernment, she has realised, does not make Lukas a good person. He has managed to nurture a fine artistic sensitivity without ever developing any real sense of right and wrong. The fact that this is even possible unsettles Marianne, and makes art seem pointless suddenly.