I found this book to be very readable and enjoyable. I particularly liked the middle - you could absolutely hear and feel their marriage. I am giving this only 4 stars, though, because I felt that Lamb treated the reasons and feelings for being overweight rather stereotypically; and for the ending, which went a bit too much into fairy-tale land.

The beginning of this book was very readable - I quite enjoyed the story of a girl growing up with her aunt, uncle and cousin in a lighthouse. However, as soon as the author got into the story of Ahab's wife, everything fell apart. Anytime there was a chance for a plot where the protagonists could have an actual story, the writer came in with her magic eraser and fixed anything that could be any soft of conflict. I gave this a 2 for the first 1/3 of the book.

A page-turner. The story of a writer telling her truthful life story, at long last, was mesmerizing. The story of the woman who was the biographer of this story got a bit strained, and the ending left me a bit wary. However, the writing is so good that I still give this a 5.