love walked in

Being a tweedy book nerd, I thought I'd post a bit about Marisa de Los Santos' love walked in. It is the story of Cornelia, a twenty something cafe manager, and Clare, an eleven year old girl whose bipolar mother abandons her. While the ending was a bit too neat and tidy for me, I did like the characters. Cornelia thinks in allusions to movies of the forties and fifties and falls for a Cary Grant look-a-like (who wouldn't?!) while Clare is brave on the scale of Kidd's Lily. Los Santos shifts from first person Cornelia to third person Clare, but this didn't bother me as much as Greene's switches in Jemima J, perhaps because Los Santos' switches are clean breaks between chapters as opposed to right in the middle. This book itself would make a good movie.