A retired professor travels to England to visit his daughter, Susan, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. By chance he meets a crippled friend of his adolescence, Gabriel, whom he's not seen for sixty years. This reunion and what ensues intertwines with his struggle to accept his daughter's possible death. Although I was drawn into the well written story, I found the way he dealt with Susan's devastating illness rather too impersonal.
(Polly Sams Plant - bwl 44 February 2008 ) |
