Augusta and her twin sister, Julia, have always been close, but they're polar opposites. While Julia wants to settle down and lead a simple life, Augusta wants... more.
Parfait has fled his war-torn homeland and is living as an artist in Spain, but he feels guilty about leaving his family behind. When tragedy strikes that reverberates across both of their lives, they come to realise that they are both missing half of themselves...
This was a really delightful book. The parallel stories of Augusta and Parfait are told really well, and are entwined in a delicate way. It took me a while to work out the connection between them, but once it became clear, it all came together quite quickly. As opposite as Augusta and Parfait are, it was tragedy that brought them together, and the difference in their characters at the beginning and the end are quite stark.
So much stuff happened in this book that it took me a while to figure out how I feel about it, but this book was genuinely lovely, and it was enjoyable to read. I sped through it because I was desperate to find out how their story ended.
