Will I love Loved and Missed?

I don't often cry when I read, but I wept during Susie Boyt's LOVED AND MISSED about a woman who raises her addict daughter's baby, not selflessly but as an attempt at a do-over. The writing, the emotional complexity, the depth and pain, all of it wrecked me.

This is a story about a woman with a daughter who struggles with drug addiction and who, when her daughter becomes pregnant, ends up raising her granddaughter. It's not an usual story, and yet, Boyt covers it with so much empathy, so much warmth, such an ability to see and understand these characters, it's a revolution in tenderness. I falls into none of the traps of over-simplification or maudlin scene that usually accompany this kind of book. It's just wonderful.