A moving and poignant tale about two messed up people trying to find true love against a back drop of dead women poets and Van Morrison's optimistically enchanting music.
On the surface Gloria and Henry look like normal people, much like a brand new record but look deeper and they are really like a used record, scratched one too many times. As the books weaves through a semester of their lives in Oxford they start emanating soulful music.
The book is a literary feast for anyone looking for a contemporary literary fiction. For a first book, the literary allusions are delightfully moving.