The Mercy of Thin Air - Ronlyn Domingue

It's a stunningly accomplished first novel, so deft and evocative in its imagery, feelings and story. Narrated from Razi's point a view, a young, feisty, fearless and emancipated woman who lived and died in the 1920s at a tragically young age in the throes of an intensely tender love affair. She's stayed "between", a realm after life but before the beyond, and is now an observer in a young couple's relationship 70 years later; she relates to us what happened in her life when she lost her one true love at such a young age, and also slyly intervenes in Amy & Scot's relationship to prevent a tragic end to their relationship. This was one book I didn't speed read as usual, but went a bit more slowly to savour its many subtle nuances and turns of phrase.