Can't really say that I enjoyed this book much. 
 Did not care for any of the characters, thought Bernadette's character defied the laws of psychological logic. I couldn't se anyone acting like her. Her "condition" was not severe enough to be agoraphobia. On the other hand, the author clearly wanted to give her a psychotic disease. It didn't fly with me. 
 It took me forever to get through this book, I finally decided to end it and ploughed through it during a 4 hour flight to and back from Cyprus. 
 The whole thing was quite ridiculous. It read like a spoof, but it wasn't meant to be spoof. It was meant to be a heartfelt story, written with a light tone so as not to turn it into a blubbering drama. Didn't work, IMO. 
 Was contemplating giving it a 3 star because it wasn't THAT bad but 2 days later I've completely forgotten all about it and can only remember the key elements. That is a 2 star. Better off forgotten.