The two protagonists – Daniel and Alice – are both lost and looking for something. It is styled as a list and even though I am not a person who makes lists, but I am drawn to them so I picked up the book. I checked out the book because I liked the cover. Yes, I loved it but I also felt that I have lived that book, that life, those choices and those regrets. To say that I loved ‘Ten things I’ve Learnt About Love’ by Sarah Butler would be an understatement. It made me want to step out of my comfort zone more often because I always come back a different, if not better person, and really, what more can one ask? I loved that it was a quiet read, never melodramatic, complicated and yet so very simple at the same time. I loved the asymmetry of it, the nostalgia that poured out of every page. I loved the change, the maturity of it, I loved that it didn’t have a messy beginning and a clean ending. That is the case with Ten Things I’ve Learnt about Love. It takes a lot for me to pick up a realistic novel, and even more if it’s literary fiction, but I rarely regret it in the end. ![]() There were some complicated feelings underneath, but she never reacted as one would expect. In lack of her emotional responses, I’d try to assume what she would feel in any given situation and quickly become frustrated when Alice remained unchanged by this new experience. It wasn’t always easy being inside the head of someone so detached. I went to her house and rang the bell, but no one answered, and when I looked through the window, I saw the marks on the carpet, where the furniture used to be. I tried to find you, you must believe that. He was her mother’s husband, father of her two sisters, and he raised her as his own, even after her mother died. For her part, Alice doesn’t even know that the doctor dying in their family home isn’t her real father. ![]() He refuses to leave the city, though, because that’s where he thinks Alice is, although he knows very little about her. He is, in part, homeless by choice the life without attachments suits him. He is homeless, a different type of wanderer, but a wanderer nevertheless. After spending six months in Mongolia, running from a dysfunctional family, a relationship that made her feel aimless and trapped, she receives the news that her father is dying and returns home.ĭaniel is Alice’s real father. Unable to create real emotional attachments, or rather prone to denying those she has created, she is a lone island surrounded by people she should be closest to. It doesn’t take long for her to start feeling trapped so she travels the world to avoid it. ![]() She also has a hard time staying in one place she is a wanderer, restless by nature. As the youngest of three daughters, Alice has a hard time finding her place in her own family. It is a soft, nostalgic story about a woman who is a bit lost but more importantly, who doesn’t want to be found. All rights reserved.Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love is so far out of my comfort zone that I had to take a train back, but it was definitely worth the trip. The information presented is not legal advice, is not to be acted upon as such, may not be current and is subject to change without notice. All materials on this website have been prepared for general information purposes only to permit you to learn more about ClientEarth, our work and the expertise of our staff. ClientEarth is an environmental law charity, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales, company number 02863827, registered charity number 1053988, registered office 10 Queen Street Place, London EC4R 1BE, a registered international non-profit organisation in Belgium, ClientEarth AISBL, enterprise number 0714.925.038, a registered company in Germany, ClientEarth GmbH, HRB 202487 B, a registered foundation in Poland, Fundacja ClientEarth Poland, KRS 0000364218, NIP 701025 4208, a registered 501(c)(3) organisation in the US, ClientEarth US, EIN 81-0722756, a registered subsidiary in China, ClientEarth Beijing Representative Office, Registration No.
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