This book was different to what I normally reach for and it was an interesting read but I did find it a little hard to connect to the story and I wasn't moved it the way I expected to be.

This was an interesting read, but I was left wanting more between the two main lovers, more of an exploration. The fallout across both families was good though.

You know when you read a book then you leave off reviewing it for a month or so and suddenly you can’t remember a thing about it? That’s how memorable All the World Beside was to me. It was perfectly alright a read, but nothing really stuck out about it, apart from the fact that, while it centred on a supposedly perspective-altering relationship, you never really saw that. Which was probably the point, but if it has all these big consequences that spiral out of it, then perhaps it ought to be a little more on page? Maybe that’s just me. Anyway: a good read, but not a great one, ultimately.