“You are the average of the five people you spend the most
time with.” This is an insult that is thrown at Dublin traffic warden Allegra
Bird by a yellow Ferrari owner called Rooster.
For some reason, this gets under her skin, and she spends her
time evaluating her life and the people in it.
Growing up without a mother and what appears to be an
eccentric father – Allegra, whose nickname is Freckles, goes to boarding school
at a young age where each evening after lights out, she scratches Star
Constellations on the freckles on her arms.
Leaving school with ideas of becoming a Garda, she fails the
entry requirements and instead becomes a Traffic Warden, but always hankers
after the law enforcing lifestyle, knowing that this is the closest she’ll get.
Allegra had a warm, but troubled personality, she appeared
socially awkward at times along the lines of Eleanor Oliphant there something a
bit quirky about her, but I couldn’t exactly put my finger on what it was, but
she also drew you in as a character.
The story is told by Allegra, through her own voice which is
more of a commentary as there’s no speech punctuation so at times, I found it
really difficult to distinguish whether she was thinking something or actually
saying it out loud, and then other people’s responses were confusing, but after
a time you get used to it so it didn’t distract too much.
The descriptions of Ireland and especially the island in
Kerry where Allegra is from was amazing, and I had to google it to see if it
was as beautiful as it was described, and it certainly looks that way, that
another place which will be added to my long list of destinations to visit in
the future!
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