I am in a middle of this book and I am ready to give it much more than 5 stars. I read a lot of negative reviews about it and don't agree with them. This book is of the same quality as The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen or books by Lionel Shriver. It rips you apart, makes you suffer, makes you to recognise many familiar things from your own life. Lanchester affects his reader in a way that you want this book to stop; suddenly it is too painful to read, because you are so involved in the story. You want the characters not to suffer, for life to have a good outcome, but you know all the way that it is not possible. The book kept its high standard to the very end, highly recommended form my point of view.