This, her final novel, was posthumously published to enormous acclaim and adulation. However, despite the ecstatic blurbs, this last effort does not reach her previous high standards of insight or plot. The breakdown of the chief personality is foreseeable and repetitious, the characters in themselves rather flat, the plot certainly not original and rather pedestrian. But still, she is a legend in herself, always entertaining, and so worth reading at a dull moment or on holiday.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 79 Winter 2016 ) |
