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The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock

por Jane Riley

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His life is perfectly regimented. Is there really room for something as unpredictable as love?Oliver Clock has everything arranged just so. A steady job running the family funeral parlour. A fridge stocked with ready meals. A drawer full of colour-coded socks. A plan (of sorts) to stay trim enough for a standard-sized coffin. And in florist Marie, he's even found the love of his life--not that she's aware of it.When a terrible tragedy takes Marie out of his life but leaves him with her private journal, he discovers too late that she secretly loved him back. Faced now with an empty love life, a family funeral business in trouble, a fast-approaching fortieth birthday and a notebook of resolutions he's never achieved, Oliver resolves to open himself up to love--and all the mess that comes along with it.But, with a habit of burying his feelings, can he learn to embrace his lovability and find the woman who will make him feel whole?… (más)

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A fun little read, not always a light one, but I think he figures things out. (

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Jeffrey_G | Nov 22, 2022 |

Oliver Clock is an Australian funeral director in his late 30s with a bad case of both indecisiveness and unrequited love. If not quite a Manic Pixie Dream Boy, he comes close: he's supposed to be a bundle of Endearing Quirks and Oddities, but instead is just a character who manages to be both dull and inauthentic. His eventual love interest, Edie, is definitely a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, though too vaguely sketched to be as annoying as MPDGs usually are. Bland. (

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siriaeve | Oct 5, 2020 |

Timid, introverted Oliver Clock runs the dated funeral home he has inherited. He let’s love escape & finds himself reluctantly pushed out of his comfort zone by an incompatible girlfriend.

The premise of this first novel was interesting, but the story developed at a funereal pace with a lot of repetition, and the writing was pedestrian. A lot of the subject-matter was about the making of scented candles to evoke people, and it was maybe unfortunate that I had just finished reading Perfume, an astonishing novel about scent & obsession with the virtuoso writing of Süskind, and found myself unfavourably comparing this offering. (

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LARA335 | Mar 27, 2020 |

Sweet book. Easy read. I like the bit about candles and memories (

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shazjhb | Feb 13, 2020 |

I tend to approach buzzy new publishing terms with a little scepticism. So when people started referring to ‘uplit’ as a genre I thought, here we go again. But, having begun 2020 by reading The Flatshare (heartwarming) and now this wonderful novel, The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock, I am now a convert. If ever there was a time for life-affirming fiction, it is now.

Typically I struggle to engage with overly submissive protagonists, but Jane Riley’s skilfully depicted leading man Oliver is a character that I really warmed to. Yes, he can be socially awkward and compliant to his own detriment, but his life experiences and genuine desire to not cause others distress has shaped this behaviour. Continue reading >> https://bookloverbookreviews.com/2020/02/the-likely-resolutions-of-oliver-clock-... (

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His life is perfectly regimented. Is there really room for something as unpredictable as love?Oliver Clock has everything arranged just so. A steady job running the family funeral parlour. A fridge stocked with ready meals. A drawer full of colour-coded socks. A plan (of sorts) to stay trim enough for a standard-sized coffin. And in florist Marie, he's even found the love of his life--not that she's aware of it.When a terrible tragedy takes Marie out of his life but leaves him with her private journal, he discovers too late that she secretly loved him back. Faced now with an empty love life, a family funeral business in trouble, a fast-approaching fortieth birthday and a notebook of resolutions he's never achieved, Oliver resolves to open himself up to love--and all the mess that comes along with it.But, with a habit of burying his feelings, can he learn to embrace his lovability and find the woman who will make him feel whole?

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