"It felt like one of those moments in a relationship... that would look completely innocuous to an outsider, but which were packed with meaning and aggression. Annie could imagine telling Ros at work that Duncan had gone absolutely nuts because she played a new CD when he wasn't at home, and Ros would be suitably appalled." It might well have seemed a minor and innocuous incident, were it not that Hornby's genius is precisely for empathising in this way; for describing the small, private details of a relationship; the fleeting thoughts that cumulatively amount to a person's feelings for another.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/juliet-naked-by-nick-hornby-1777581.html
