Books
by Zoë Heller
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Notes on a Scandal |
Based on a case in the press a few years ago of a woman teacher in love with her fifteen-year-old student, this novel, although a major film at present, is eminently worth reading. The dry, pedantic and obsessive prose covers a multitude of contradictions and hidden meanings in mother-child, lover-victim and family relationships, as well as social commentary. A must.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 39 April 2007) |
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The Believers |
I thought the beginning interesting enough to carry on reading, but the initial impetus didn't last - not for me, at any rate. I read to the end to see if it would get better; it didn't. A cast of hopeless characters, with the main one being one of the nastiest I've come across in many years of reading. The reviews say "a subtle, funny family farce". I fear I found it tedious, unamusing and unpleasant.
(Julie Higgins - bwl 52 July 2009) |
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