by Graham Swift
bookshelves: published-2003, booker-longlist, summer-2015, tbr-busting-2015, ipad, e-book, mystery-thriller, lit-richer, britain-england, london, wimbledon, pee-eyes, midlife-crisis, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy Read from July 26 to 28, 2015 To set the scene, let's have some Sugar Loaf SambaDescripti...
Took me a while to get into it instead of just being cranky at the author for withholding cliffhanger-y information, but then I got grabbed narratively as well as suspensely and was breathless for the rest.(Clearly when reviewing books I need plus good wordspeak)
Gave this up pretty quickly. I attempted the audio version, so perhaps it translates poorly in that format, but the style made the story entirely impossible to comprehend. I kept checking my ipod to see if it was skipping chapters because there seemed to be no coherent narrative. Just as I thought I...