Turtle diary

This slim novel captures loneliness so well, there were pages that were painful to read. The chapters alternate between the perspectives of the man and woman who are the central characters. Although they are both lonely, they manage it and manifest it differently. I was thankful that this book did not make the resolution of loneliness a simple matter of hooking up with another person–it was more a matter of finding a new place to start out from within oneself. I sympathised with the desire to set the turtles free, and I rooted for it to be a success, but I thought it went off far too easily.

“But that sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave out.” Page 55

“Actually we're all swimmers, we've all come from the ocean. Some of us are trying to find it again.” Page 72