This is another of those books which I had intended to read a few chapters of, just to get a sense of it, and then finished up completely hooked. It's very reminiscent of Jon McGregor, especially his early novel If No One Speaks of Remarkable Things (http://www.jonmcgregor.com/books/if-nobody-speaks-of-remarkable-things/ ). It's about a year in the life of a couple in their 20s, told in four sections, each about a day or two days through that year. They are early in their careers, he as a locum GP, she as a curator in a small public art gallery. Very little happens, and the novel is told in an internal monologue, and dialogue, which shifts between the two characters paragraph by paragraph, sometimes sentence by sentence. This all sounds terribly turgid, but Reynolds' prose is just so slick and smooth, yet packed with detail and emotion, that the book just flies by, while quietly raising profound questions about how we live and what it means to be human. I think this is an incredible achievement, this book, and while it probably won't appeal to a huge audience, it's a very powerful piece of work.