Nick Hornby fans will know this was his first book with a woman narrator. I liked the way he wrote Kate, the main character. She wasn't silly and fluffy; nor was she perfect. I think he wrote her better than a lot of chicklit authors write their women. I read this in Greece a couple of years ago. The dark tone of the book surprised me somewhat, but it was a very satisfying read.

It was an odd book, definitely. Not at all what I was expecting, but I did like it. I actually read that before High Fidelity (since the library had many copies of it, but High Fidelity, being more well-known, was harder to get ahold of), and after About a Boy.

I liked that it was present tense, too. :D I have a deep, abiding fondness for present tense, and hate when it gets slammed by fic authors as having no place in fiction. Now I can be like, look! Here's a whole book, you asses! :p