![]() I was trying to figure out if the book was hinting that Daniel was a refugee who had fled the holocaust (I couldn't work out if the first scene, which seems to depict a tragedy on a beach was meant to represent something that had really happened to him). In this book, Daniel seemed to be asleep for most of the time I found myself reading a lot of scenes that felt bizarre and surreal, which I later realised they were dream sequences. Not a lot really happened in this book, but my assumption is that the characters' story will continue through the other three books. Later, they lost touch, until she found out that he was living in a care home. ![]() ![]() Most significantly, Daniel was a lot older than Elisabeth, but befriended her when she was younger, despite her mother's objections. ![]() Right from the start, this felt completely unconventional the main plot was about the friendship (and potentially, romance) between the two main characters, Elisabeth and Daniel. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect from Ali Smith's "Seasonal Quartet" books. ![]()
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