'A' grade review: Count the Shells

I loved this book. All the characters were a delight, and it was wonderful to see Michael slowly re-embrace familiar people, places, and hobbies from his youth, while also coming to terms with both the physical losses of his first love – by estrangement and then through death – and with the revelation that his love was never the model of perfection Michael has mourned all these years.

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