When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers

I finished the novel When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers and have to say, I really enjoyed it. It's told in first person narrative which works wonderfully well if you love the character, which in this case I did. I loved Ramble. If Ramble was a real person I would definitely want to be her friend, but that isn't likely as Ramble herself knows. Book people have a hard time finding each other, their natural habitat being behind the covers of whatever they are currently reading. The blurb on the front cover describes When to Walk as "Tristam Shandy meets Bridget Jones" which is just some book reviewer trying to be clever (what is the obsession with people describing things as this meets that, anyway?). But When to Walk did put me in mind of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. So if you liked that, you might like this as well. Or if you are a bookish sort of person, feel a wee bit anti-social, have loads of weird facts stuck in your head and easily get off topic, this might be the book for you, too. In a nutshell, it's one week in Ramble's life - the week after her husband has left her. The week when Ramble tries to figure out what to do with the rest of her life, or at least with the rest of her day.