Rainy Day Reads

I initially wanted to read this book because I watched the movie adaptation on Netflix one night when I was scrolling through the options, struggling to find something that piqued my interest. Finally I settled on this movie, and to be honest, I didn’t expect much from it. But by the end I was actually crying, something that doesn’t happen that often. So since I enjoyed the movie so much I decided to read the book, since I am of the opinion that the book will (almost) always be better than the movie.  The story is about a young woman from London, Kitty, who marries a bacteriologist, Walter, who lives in HongKong. She does so mostly to spite her mother and save herself from spinsterhood. She soon finds that she does not really love or even like her husband, and she is bored and unsatisfied with her life. She starts up an affair with a charismatic, charming Englishman, but when they are discovered by her husband her world crumbles. The lover leaves her and her husband forc...