A book you will either love or loathe - I loved it! Impossible to describe adequately, it follows the short and strange life of Grenouille, an ugly, deformed child born in Paris at the end of the 17th century to a loveless woman who is immediately put to death. The wet nurse refuses to have him because...he has no smell. He spends his life trying to find a scent for himself with strange success. Utterly compelling!
(Julie Higgins - bwl 33 February 2006 ) |
