Set in the 80’s, this love story is about what true love is, unconditional, accepting, loving even when love means letting go.

The main characters go through an awful lot of suffering, which can make this novel rather hard to read and endure at times.I lay there as long as I could, before shooting up and shaking myself and running through the trees, out onto the main road, breathless towards the library”. As I often do with deeply affecting books about love- I cried, and wept for what could have been for Juno’s love for Legs. As the teenagers move beyond the quiet cruelties of a Catholic education, and into an even darker and seemingly crueller world, against the odds their friendship endures.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Reminiscent of Young Mungo in its tone and sorrowful, bleak mood- Juno Loves Legs is a timeless tale of two misfits. This story begins in a small Irish village where Juno and Legs live, where Juno’s father is a mostly useless alcoholic, and her mother is a seamstress who creates lovely gowns and more, but her clients rarely pay. This is an attempt at writing high literature at the small press level, as the book has a lingo of its own and can be difficult at times to truly understand. It’s not that often that you read a story of such pure platonic love - incidentally, my two favourite books so far this year have been just that (this one and We All Want Impossible Things).As Legs alludes to that his impending death from AIDS is near, through insight, wisdom and unflinching self awareness, Juno quietly declares their understanding with devastating pragmatism, with an acceptance that touched me, “like the silence of reading, or reading about people who love and must part, I thought it perfect” (Geary 273).