Starting Over

Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Three women find themselves renting apartments in the same large Victorian mansion in Regina. Each of them has just experienced the end of a relationship. Maude, a spinster in her sixties has been left at the alter.She is irascible and humorless and has the top floor apartment. Summa,around 35, has left the big city of Toronto to get as far from her former friends, Brett who has ghosted her. She is on the ground floor,works nights, is,in her mind at least more sophisticated than Maude. She is ,therefore, impatient with and rude to her. In the basement apartment is McKenzie, who has made a break from her overprotective parents and from the ghosting by her boyfriend,Jared. The house is owned by a middle aged museum janitor, Larry. He is socially inept, attracted to Summa and yearns for he good old days when Punk music was all the rage. Within a few days of the women's taking up residence a note,sopping wet from the rain and missing a signature is found in the mailbox. It simply says"sorry I missed you.". For whom is the note intended? Each woman hopes it is she. They decide to spend each afternoon in a local coffee shop on the assumption that the writer will show up there eventually. How these women reveal their losses histories and how their relationships evolve are at times hilarious and at others hear trending,but always engrossing,touching and real.

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