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• Very taut language - it feels like every word of a description carries weight. Also very thought-provoking, but seemed to lose focus a bit towards the end.

  4.00 out of 5

  wandering_star

• I've noted Andrew Miller as one of my favourite authors and I can certainly easily relax into his prose but something itches with this book. Clem Glass is a photographer psychologically disturbed after witnessing the effects of a genocide in Rwanda. He is caring for his sister who has undergone her own mental breakdown. As in too many novels the world of work is unbelievably accommodating, at no point are either of these characters concerned that they might never again be employable; neither do they suffer from the even the slightest pecuniary anxiety or inconvenience. This is mental illness for the upper class; it's of no more consequence to the characters than taking an extended holiday. This is Iris Murdoch country but Dame Iris maintains it more successfully by inflating her characters and hermetically sealing them off from the real world. Find another traumatised war photograher in Pat Barker's Double Vision.

  3.00 out of 5

  dylanwolf

• A very well written story by an obviously accomplished writer. However the story failed to hold my attention and two thirds of the way through I lost interest and needed a masive effort to finish it. Too much domesticity for my liking.

  2.50 out of 5

  jimrbrown

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