The Driveway Has Two Sides by Sara Marchant – #ABookADayInMay – Day 20

I’m continuing my reading of Fairlight Moderns with The Driveway Has Two Sides (2018) by Sara Marchant – with another lovely cover illustration by Sam Kalda. Honestly, I can’t speak highly enough of these editions. Their size and feel and the care taken over them are all wonderful. And thankfully, in this case, the book is also excellent! I really enjoyed The Driveway Has Two Sides, and it has made me interested to read more by Marchant. It’s set on an East Coast Island, onto which moves Delilah. She is a young woman who is, we are told quite often, beautiful and sexy (if the book were written by a man, I’d have questioned how often we needed to know that!) On the small island, any outsider is treated with a little suspicion – and she clearly doesn’t want to be at the heart of the community. But she shares her driveway with the yellow house next door, and the resident there is even less keen to communicate. They can be recluses near each other. If you looked underneath you noticed…