It suprised me and really told a story that I haven't read before. I found myself at times not knowing where it was going or how it could progress any further but this just drew me in and kept me needing to know more. Instead of falling in love I think I was more bewildered by the story. I went into it pretty blind and not knowing much about the storyline but for some reason expected myself to fall in love with it. Overall I enjoyed this book very much, it made me laugh, cry and showed me that stories don't need to be all love and roses to be beautiful. Mina and Elaine both have a burning desire to feel needed by someone and this being told from their own perspective is what made the story so powerful.I haven't stopped thinking about this book since I put it down and I feel that another read in a few months time will be beneficial for me help really wrap my head around the story and complexities within the different characters - potentially bringing it up to 5 starts for me. It was a great way to reveal more details and I didn't find it repetitive. It suprised me and really told a story that I haven't read before.I found the start quite slow, but not too slow that I lost interest - the story progressed nicely and matured to show the different ways humans love each other and the nature of our relationships with loss and love.I particularly liked how the book was split into parts giving both daughter, Mina and mother, Elaine their own voices and allowing them to tell their own sides of the story. Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2020 Pomare, author of CALL ME EVIE and IN THE CLEARING This book will be read and cherished by many, and Victoria Hannan is a name we will see a great deal more in the future.' - J.P. Kokomo is the Australian response to Normal People, this is Monkey Grip for the new generation of readers. It's so full of life, on each page there are tiny moments of delight, irreverence, tenderness. Kokomo is a delight, a book I wanted to finish in a greedy rush but one I also wanted to savour. 'I can't remember being so excited by a debut novel. Kokomo dazzles, pierces, and stays.' - Robert Lukins, author of THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY Hannan is both acute witness and masterful reporter of love in all its faulty and essential shapes. 'Graceful and raw, this is a remarkable study of the forces of desire and regret. This is smart, raw, tender fiction that feels as real as life.' - Ronnie Scott, author of THE ADVERSARY It makes you laugh, makes you think, but it doesn't stop there - it plays with your heart and leaves it different. 'This is a book that gets right into your body. Reading this book felt like drinking with friends in a cozy pub until last call I emerged from it shiny-faced, unbothered by the cold, wanting more.' - Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of THE LOVE OF A BAD MAN and BEAUTIFUL REVOLUTIONARY 'A coming-of-age novel for the Peter Pan generation, Kokomo juggles the dissatisfactions of sex, marriage, and corporate ambition with deceptive lightness and radiant empathy. 'A timely song of secrets, sex and the meaning of love' - Sydney Morning Herald Their reunion leaves Mina raking through pieces of their painful past in a bid to uncover the truth.īoth tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us apart. Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk about her sudden return to the world, nor why she's spent so much time hiding from it. Her reclusive mother, Elaine, has left the house for the first time in twelve years. When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down.
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