furfff's review
3.0
A quick inconsequential read. A very young newlywed couple leaves their small town for Paris to escape having to fully reveal the fact that she's already pregnant and he's not as employed as he says he is. Not so much focused on the inner life of both the husband and wife, as the title might suggest, but rather primarily concerned with the husband, and his seeming inability to ever quite do the right thing. There's nothing overtly wrong with this book, but nothing astoundingly right either. I guess the most appealing aspect was a side character of a woman the guy has an affair with who becomes a bit of a lifecoach slash sugar momma that's actually more nuanced than a lot of Simenon women.
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