Monday 18 June 2018

Review: Grace After Henry by Eithne Shortall


After not reading anything for MONTHS, I dove straight back in with this beauty, Grace After Henry. After the sudden unexpected death of her boyfriend Henry, Grace is trying to deal with the grief and move on, but she keeps seeing Henry everywhere she goes. A few weeks later, a plumber turns up to fix the boiler and he is the DOUBLE of Henry - and it turns out that he is Henry's long-lost identical twin, and Henry had absolutely no idea that he existed.

I liked the story - it moved at a decent pace and I really understood Grace's decisions, why she did what she did. I did find it a little bit peculiar, a little far-fetched maybe, the whole long-lost twin thing that just happened to turn up on her doorstep, but there is an overarching theme in this novel - that of fate and coincidence, so I guess it makes sense.

After not reading anything in what feels like forever, this was a lovely novel to get back into, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.