Comment on theme

Alice’s joy from adopting Billy, Tina’s relationship with William, and Chrissie’s marriage to Jackie are all examples of the way blessings can sprout from the most unlikely of situations. One lesson that the author seems to want the reader to take away from this novel is that blessings can come from loss. In each of these situations, the characters suffered a good deal of loss before they received a blessing. Some blessings came from another’s loss while others were a direct result of the loss suffered by that character.