A Game of Hide and Seek

A tentative summer love between shy and simple Harriet and careless and cruel Vesey falls apart before it can bloom. Two decades later they are brought back together again, discovering they had held on to their long-ago feelings.

I really thought the narration of Harriet and Vesey's adolescent love was exquisite, capturing the awkwardness and fast heartbeats of crushes and first touches. Taylor's writing has a unique style, observing and subtle, detached yet also sharp. She makes jumps sometimes, inserts you right into situations, without connecting the dots, it was intriguing.

I loved the first part more, for its shy romance. The second part features too many secondary characters, I mainly wanted the attention back on our main protagonists. Towards the end everything becomes gloomier and gloomier, plot and my perception of it, but the ending was great again.