Book 8: The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison

I had mixed feelings about this book, which is a combination invented memoir ("Trolley Girls") about sisters, anarchy, trolley strikes and so on in the 20s and modern (1970's forward) novel of friendship between two rather unlikely women friends, who meet in a playground. I'm still not entirely convinced about the writing style of the modern section, or indeed, either of the characters in that section; I found it hard to slip inside the head or skin of either of those women, which made their friendship harder to fathom and so on and so forth. Parts of the novel I enjoyed very much, parts were more of a struggle for me. I did, however, finish it without skipping too much. So that's something.