Set in urban Canada, this is a serious yet lightly entertaining tale of the mutual love of a three times divorced presenter of a nightly programme on local radio and a researcher into mermaids on the staff of an institute of folk history. As in the novels of Richard Ford and Anne Tyler, I found the different characters and their situations convincing at the same time as stimulatingly offbeat.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 10 August 2001 ) |
