I hadn't read a Drabble novel for years, so was pleased to find she still puts a good story together. Media celebrity Ailsa and marine biologist Humphrey once spent a childhood holiday together, later married - disastrously - and finally meet up again in their sixties, to find themselves manoeuvred into confronting their childhood experiences. Exploring the working out of our destinies and the life-long haunting of our early lives, I found it convincing and moving.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 54 November 2009 ) |
