Matthew Griffin has written this beautiful novel, and here I am struggling to string a few sentences together to express how good I feel about it. It's a love story that endures through many difficult decades, but it's also the most wonderfully observed description of what it's like to get old together when everything is wearing out, but the only option is to keep going. Wendall Wilson and Frank Clifton have been together since the end of the Second World War, so their relationship has endured through times when they could have gone to prison for their love, even though they never caused any harm to anybody. The only option they had was to buy a run down old property a few miles out of the nearest town, and never leave or arrive anywhere together so as not to arouse suspicion. Even as they grow older and their type of relationship becomes legal and commonplace, they can't shake off the need to be cautious, so when Frank is taken to hospital they still pretend th...