Kaethe

I'm glad I reread Just One Day before starting this one. They are very neatly paired, in their similar stories of how two young adults stop coasting and start really living their own lives; they parallel one another in how the two leads come to view their parents as people.

Willem has had a bad time of it, a whole string of blows leading up to that one day in Paris. And then, when there's something he really wants, Lulu, his own casual charm has thwarted him from learning anything concrete about her. After two years of just running away, he's learning how to conceive a goal and work towards it,

Lovely. The secondary characters are as well drawn as the primaries, and although it is of course a story with a happy ending, that ending is fought for and deserved.

And now I'm having to reread As You Like It because I didn't recall anything. Then I'll have to give Twelfth Night another go, likewise.

Library copy.