Book Review: Life: A Love Story

 

Elizabeth Berg is prolific. I've liked many of her books, some not so much. This one is somewhere in between. It's a good story with an interesting, likable main character- an elderly woman looking back over her life at the end of it. Berg does the voice performance herself and it was a pleasant, enjoyable listen.

Nothing very remarkable happens, but the main character reveals some of the hidden struggles in her otherwise happy marriage. The narrative goes back and forth between first person narration of her goodbye letter to a friend and third person narration of her final days when she makes a new friend who encourages her to do some of the things on her bucket list.

Although it is ultimately a book about dying, Flo is in her nineties and is expressing her deep appreciation for the full life she lived.