I Remember You by Harriet Evans

After reading Harriet Evans' 'The Love of Your Life', I decided to look at another of her books and chose to read 'I Remember You'.

Although I did enjoy this book, in my opinion it wasn't as good as 'The Love of Your Life', and I found it quite slow to get going and overly descriptive in parts.

The story centres around Tessa, a girl in her late 20's who moves back to her childhood town after losing her London job and splitting up with her boyfriend. Her parents have moved away from the town and a big development is threatening the surrounding countryside, but other than that, the perfect English town hasn't changed at all since Tess left for university.

Her best friend is also still in the town, but they have both changed and their history makes things strained between them. Tess has come back to Langford because she has a job as a classics teacher at the esteemed college, which leads to a trip to a very eventful trip to Rome that for Tess and many others, changes everything.
Whilst the characters are well developed and you are able to connect with them, there is also, often sudden changing of perspectives which help to develop the story and in this case shows the symmetry between the characters, I did find it halted the story somewhat.  

I did however enjoy the story and will look at more of Harriet Evans books in the future but that is more down to 'The Love of Your Life'.

6/10