Stunning. I loved the way Shakespeare ran through this book so effortlessly. In the afterword, the author admits she “ransacked Shakespeare's entire oeuvre with giddy abandon” and it was beautiful. I didn‘t want it to end. And there were tears.

There is so much emotion (positive and negative) between these seven classmates, who were all drawn together (for better or worse) by their love of The Bard. As Oliver states, ”I blame him for all of it”.

“what liars they are, the sky and the water. Still and calm and clear, like everything was fine. It wasn‘t fine, and really, it never would be again”