![]() ![]() There’s her mother – in a care home with early onset dementia, a disease which is often genetic. Saoirse is a highly flawed character – cynical, angsty, and prone to verbally lashing out – but she’s also deeply caring, and trying to navigate the complexity of the teenage-to-adult transition with a lot on her plate. Its the perfect plan aside from one tiny flaw: at the end of the falling in love montage, the characters always fall in love. She has a loophole: for the next few months, they do all the swoon-worthy activities from her favourite rom-coms, then at the end they break up and never see each other again. ![]() ![]() Enter Ruby – a rom-com obsessed girl only visiting Ireland for the summer. The last thing Saoirse is looking for is a new relationship – no point in starting one if its doomed to end. If they were real, Saoirse wouldn’t be at risk of inheriting the very condition that’s confined her mum to a care home in her fifties. ![]() If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name. If they were real, she and her ex-girlfriend would still be together. Saoirse doesn’t believe in happy endings. It balances the saccharine sweetness perfectly with hard-hitting character development, producing a novel that’s both entertaining and moving. ‘The Falling in Love Montage’ is a cute sapphic romance, but also a moving coming-of-age story that deals with grief, family, and making the most of the time you have. ![]()
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