I generally enjoy reading Elizabeth Berg’s novels. Many are like reading a good issue of People magazine from cover to cover and being fully engrossed in the stories as I read, then forgetting them the second I finish the magazine. Her latest novel, The Last Time I Saw You, is much the same.

This is the story of a group of people reuniting at their 40th high school reunion. Some have led happy lives, others less so. I won’t go into more details as I’ve already forgotten them.

One of her earlier novels I did enjoy reading was The Year of Pleasures. There is a time and place and mood for Berg’s novels, and if you’re in it, then they are just the thing.