![]() ![]() ![]() It's not like we don't see this Aickman in his other works (or in his life, just read about how viciously he treated his co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association!) but this novel, centered on Cressida and Vivien as they leave school and move in with Vivienne's Aunt Agnes the free-spirited divorcée, shoves the mean-girl pedal to the floor. There is a tone of facetious, in fact malicious, judgment of those who express any notion of Idealism or Utopian thought.Īm I putting you off? I don't mean to I want, though, there to be no misunderstanding about the book you're going to read: This is not ghost-story unease-inducing Aickman this is sharply observant, unsparingly opinionated Aickman. ![]() There are the stock situations, eg the defended virtue of one of the leads. There are the expected players, if you've been reading British literature a long time, or are enamored of E.F. ![]() You're going to meet Types, not characters, ones whose existence is actual, but susceptible to change in the century since the story.here based on the Free State of Fiume.is set. Sad, but inevitable Aickman's work, when outside the unsettling norm of it, is quite an ask. My Review: I'm quite sure a lot of people will not like this book very much. I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. ![]()
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