Sweet Milo and his Niall.

Once again Lily Morton has the uncanny ability to deliver a story which hooks you at the very first word. And more, when it’s Joel Leslie narrating it, it’s such a crescendo of laughter, tearing up and falling in love with the wonderful characters that you really can’t stop listening until the very last word (and, when it comes, you’re so sorry it’s already over…).

We met Milo and Niall in the previous book (Oz) and we sensed that there was something between the two of them. What we didn’t know is their lifetime of shared history, which is fully revealed in this book, along with Milo’s problematic past.

Milo is a wonderful character, he seems shy and insecure, but as Niall describes him, he is “like the willow trees, slender and looking delicate, but twisting and bowing with whichever way the wind bends him”.

Niall is strong and protective; he shows the world his careless and sarcastic façade, but the people who are closest to him, and love him, know that underneath this façade he is really a giant softie.

Both man have their own quirks and defects, but what is so good in this book is that they know exactly what the other man’s are, and they still love each other with every fibre of their being.