Originally told through six days in Ivy’s life, this book takes the reader on a journey of life and loss. Initially the writing style was a little difficult for me to comprehend but as the book carried on it became easier to lose myself in the beauty and lightness of the writing. Ivy’s life takes on many twists on turns, from pre WWII to just before the 2000s. We follow her as she grieved, finds love, loses love and finds herself. I really enjoyed this form of storytelling that put focus on these six days in her life. By the end of the book I felt attached to Ivy, I had been following her life since she was 19 and I almost didn’t want to leave her. This was emotionally charged and full of gorgeous quotes and relationships, a real reflection of life and all of its complications.

4+ ⭐

I was a bit misty eyed by the end of this.
Six days with Ivy, and yet I felt I knew her so well.
Admittedly, six very important days.
We start with a fairly ordinary family Easter, lunch and from there I was hooked.
Pulled on my heart strings a fair few times.

Six days of Ivys young life at the start of the War is intense as much as it's tragic.

Ivy is spending time with her family, who are rather free and easy about life when tragedy strikes and wordls and lives are changed forever.

This book is a great read. it is a slow burn but oh how I loved it.

The author is a good storyteller and I felt all emotions and gasped at times at what happened next.

Not what i expected at all but I like when a book surprises me..

I’m not really sure what to say about this book. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly good either. I think the premise ended up being much better than the execution. The book presents six days in the life of Ivy, a young woman who is 19 on the eve of World War II. The first chapter, which recounts the tragic events of Easter 1938, is very strong, and I hoped it would set the tone for the rest. Unfortunately, as the story progressed, I felt that this intensity faded.
The idea of depicting long-term grief through a few random days in the protagonist’s life sounds intriguing, but it resulted in a situation where most significant events were told rather than shown. I also didn't feel a sense of continuity, especially regarding the protagonist's emotions and her relationships. Although Ivy is constantly grappling with her loss from 1938, she also builds her life with others; however, these relationships lacked emotional depth for me because we know almost nothing about them beyond descriptions of six moments in her life.
Sadly, particularly in the second half, the book became dull at times. I don’t deny that the author had an interesting idea, and the book does hold some value in discussions about grief and love as factors driving life choices. However, I wish these themes had been more strongly emphasized.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get into this book I tired a couple of times but didn’t make past chapter five really sorry to report this but it was DNF for me