This was our book group choice for this month and it was disappointing. It was badly written and one dimensional and given the subject matter this isn’t something it could get away with easily. It needed some emotion and some heart. The lead character was a vaccuum who I found it very difficult to know and sympathise with, and the photographer who she was researching never came to life for me. The dialogue and sentence structure were particularly awkward and there was a dry distant feel to the narrative voice. Too often I felt that I was being told things rather than shown them, whether it was the characters feelings or aspects of the plot. It isn’t enough, for example, to be told that the photographer had talent and list his pictures- you need to explain why. I have a feeling the prints were included in the book to make up for this lack. The whole book was a set up for the final pages and it wasn’t worth it- I just didn’t care enough.

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