Hmm... reading a book about a pandemic while being in one may not have been the best idea.  And this book is also like... just a lot of birthing scenes and descriptions.  There's a lot of birthing going on in here.  I'm here for the LGBT aspects.  But this book was just not for me... I have never been a huge historical fiction fan and this book does help to reaffirm that for me.  Everything was a little too slow for my liking, as well.  I listened to this book and am glad because it had an Irish narrator - so that made it flow a little better - and I heard the book does not use quotation marks.   Ugh... bye... I do not have the time or energy to wonder if someone is thinking to themselves or talking to someone else.  Use quotation marks, people!