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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

This is such a good book that all the time I was reading it I was wondering who I could give it to as a present.  I suppose the target audience would be millennials who grew up playing computer games, but I was hooked right from the start and I am someone's great grandmother and I don't play computer games. There is such a sensitivity in the character descriptions that you can almost feel the presence of Sam and Sadie who meet by chance in a break-out area of a hospital children's ward and find themselves bonding over a video game.   They are only about ten or eleven when they meet, and Sam is there because his foot has been crushed in a car accident, and Sadie has to spend time at the hospital with her parents because her sister is being treated for cancer.  It's a rough time for both of them but playing the games allows them to escape into another world for a while and they are comfortable in each other's company.  Normally this wouldn't seem so extraordinary,...