A review by barnesstorming
Love by Roddy Doyle

3.0

Great natural language, fully-formed, believable characters. But man, 327 pages seems like an indulgence for the story this book tells. It's a 10-hour pub crawl with two nigh-on-60-year-olds, rekindling their friendship while one tells the other about his new love. Granted, it's dialog-heavy, so it's a quick read even at this length. Honestly, though, you could read the first 50 pages and the last 50 (which, the end is powerful), and you'd be just as good, IMO.

Opening line:
He knew it was her, he told me. He told me this a year after he saw her. Exactly a year, he said.

Closing lines:

Spoiler

We watched the taxi slow, and stop.
--You'll soon be home, Davy, said Joe.
--Yeah, I said. --I will.>