I really enjoyed this little novel about love with French sensibilities. I thought is was good escapist fare- you didn't always like the characters or their actions but it was interesting. One might get a bit envious of a character who looks ten years younger than her age and has fabulous clothes but it is fiction after all! I would recommend strongly for a weekend read!(Basically so you have plenty of time for cafe and daydreaming) Enough About Love is a contemporary novel that follows two very similar couples and their relationships. In that respect, it reminds me of the last book I read, The Odd Women. That novel also charted the parallel relationships of two couples. In Enough About Love our couples are Anna and Yves and Thomas and Louise.I enjoyed the philosophical questions that were unearthed by the travails of the characters and the dissection of language and aging that was also a large part of the novel. It seemed very French to me. So did the laid back attitude toward adultery. None of the characters really feels guilty about engaging in extramarital affairs and they all even involve their children in these relationships.This book seems at first to be a simple story of falling in love, but the more I think about it the more fruitful it appears. I set the book down many times mid-read to ponder a point raised by one of the characters. To me, that is one of the marks of successful literature.
Two parallel love affairs, illustrated in light sketches that retain depth and feeling.
—Acracker
well written, but so french.
—sam
Lovely. And very French.
—Kelly
