When I read this book I could see nothing in it but the idea that you have been given this gift of life and you have to do the right thing by it. That to give up on finding love and happiness is to scorn this gift.

And yet...maybe the very opposite is true. Maybe what I should have seen is the idea that you should stay where you are, that the miserable life you know is better than the unknown dangers of the happiness and love you could choose to seek.

And yet...maybe it is simply thus: the best whodunnit ever.

There is a sex scene. Even though I've read the book twice, I forgot this until rereading it a third time today:

https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/a-landing-on-the-sun-by-m...
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When I read this book I could see nothing in it but the idea that you have been given this gift of life and you have to do the right thing by it. That to give up on finding love and happiness is to scorn this gift.

And yet...maybe the very opposite is true. Maybe what I should have seen is the idea that you should stay where you are, that the miserable life you know is better than the unknown dangers of the happiness and love you could choose to seek.

And yet...maybe it is simply thus: the best whodunnit ever.

There is a sex scene. Even though I've read the book twice, I forgot this until rereading it a third time today:

https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/a-landing-on-the-sun-by-m...
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This is a book that has stayed with me long after I first read it. There is a beauty to the prose, a gentleness. It is my favourite of Frayn's books. ( )

A poignant and original exploration of how humans strive and inevitably fail to be happy. ( )

I'm not sure why I picked this up, but it was a good psychological thriller, the characters were intriguing and waiting to find out what happened to the main characters wife was painful. I would like to see this made into a movie. ( )