The principal setting for this ingenious novel is the imaginary University of Gloucester (UK) and the protagonists the philandering head of the Centre for Cognitive Sciences and a recently widowed woman novelist temporarily resident and teaching creative writing. Will she, won't she succumb to his advances? Much wit as well as speculation into the nature and workings of human consciousness. An entertaining and highly readable satire on contemporary British academia.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 13 April 2002 ) |
