The Coast Road is set in Ireland in the mid-1990s, on the cusp of divorce being legalized. Centered on three women and their spouses, the novel shows how limited the choices were for women at that time, insofar as what recourses they had if they found themselves in marriages that aren’t working — as all three do. The men aren’t portrayed sympathetically at all, and that’s probably what I liked least. There wasn’t a lot of depth to their characters, no real nuance.