It is an one-sided novel; it is so deeply immersed in that single perspective that it opens a fantasy window from within it and drifts far away from reality.
Aisling is a neglected housewife who does not take care of herself. When her husband leaves her, a handsome man finds her attractive, and at that moment the character—previously portrayed as a compliant, harmonious housewife who could never be abandoned—turns into a toxic woman. While she is out with Sam, the man she is seeing, she suddenly decides that it is time for revenge and goes to confront her husband. Coincidentally, the husband turns out to want her back. In the end, this unkempt housewife with two children abandons the handsome, attractive Sam.
Jo, despite repeatedly being told by her boyfriend that he does not want a child, gets pregnant anyway and expects him to accept it. When her boyfriend quite naturally refuses, he is portrayed as the bad guy. She then becomes involved with her charismatic boss, and this middle-aged, long-time bachelor gives up his single life for a pregnant woman.
The narrative stretches plausibility to the point where it no longer feels rooted in lived reality.
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