This Must Be The Place

I enjoyed This Must Be The Place by Maggie O'Farrell which is largely set in Ireland.  American divorced man Daniel meets a former movie star, Claudette, when he stops to help her.  They eventually marry.  This is basically a love story and the reader witnesses the ups and downs of their relationship.  There are many characters surrounding these two and we learn about them in their own chapters in time and place and how they affect the lives of the main characters.  Daniel and Claudette also travel through time so the reader gets their back story and how they came to be where they are now.  It's a big book (483 pages).  I did enjoy the diversions in meeting other characters which is frustrating at times as the previous chapter may end in a "cliff hanger" which is not resolved till later. Still an enjoyable book. 4/5