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I had mixed feelings about this book. It had an interesting premise as the author used artifacts from her neighbor‘s life to build a fictional story about this woman. However I wasn‘t always excited to pick it up each time that I went back to it. I might have enjoyed it more if I read it straight through rather than squeezing it in between other reads.

"Josianne's gift is a simple square box, its sides about as long as her forearm." #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I almost bailed with this book. However I was seduced by the actual physical book, it was great to hold a hard cover complete with dust cover and lovely paper. Most books here are paper backs and any hard covers are really expensive. Anyway this book confused me at first but once I got into it all went well. Great idea. Story based on a box of stuff found in French flat of deceased woman. Real stuff but story complete fiction. Glad I persisted.

I've been way laid again from my TBR pile by this book. It's my next read. Found by my partner at the Save The Children book sale held at our local Uni. I don't go anymore as I get too overwhelmed by the huge room full of books and all the people. Out of the box of books she arrived home with , this was the only one that grabbed my attention and said read me now! Looks intriguing and again the book itself is a pleasure to behold.

This is a very interesting #epistolary style novel. The author found a suitcase of items left behind by an old woman that lived in her building (I believe) like photographs, postcards, coins etc., from WWII and fashioned a story around them.