![]() ![]() She layers on their early dating experiences and the first months of their relationship. No-one ever really knows or understands what’s going on in anyone else’s marriage but to let us glimpse into Roy and Celestial’s, Jones tells us of childhoods and adolescence, where characters are formed and the foundations are laid. There is no studio audience”Īs you might expect, much of Jones’ skill in the book is in building up a picture of what makes a marriage. Would you have believed your son, your friend, your lover, if he said he did not commit the crime? As his wife, would you have supported him in the courtroom? Would you stay loyal to him, though your marriage is counted in months rather than years - and the time to be served stretches out in front of you without visible end? I suspect for many of us, the strain of those imbalanced months would quickly tell. This was where the audiobook came into its own – the different voices brought to life the heights of emotion that could only be expressed between them in their letter-writing.įrom the start, the book implicitly asks questions of the reader. ![]() Most of the book is told in straight narrative from their perspectives, but the section while Roy is in jail is told in a series of letters between mainly Roy and Celestial. The book rotates round three main narrators – Roy and Celestial, and Andre, Celestial’s friend since childhood. ![]()
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