5/26/2023 0 Comments How Dear the Dawn by Marc Eliot![]() Characteristically perceptive and poignant, like its predecessor it also gives a vivid and often thrilling account of life during the second world war - seen this time from the air rather than the streets of London. Elegantly structured and beautifully told, it recounts the story of Teddy Todd, the brother of the protagonist of Atkinson’s 2013 novel, Life After Life, in his attempt to live a “good, quiet life” in the 20th century. ![]() Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins (Doubleday/Little, Brown) is nothing short of a masterpiece. It has a chilly beauty, and hasn’t quite left my head since I read it six months ago. It’s a strange, oblique, devastated novel that inhabits the landscape after a big break-up without giving up any details. In fact, it’s rather cosy and seductive in the way eavesdropping in a café can be: you think you shouldn’t keep listening, but you do. It’s undoubtedly experimental in terms of concept and delivery, but there’s nothing that’s intimidating in the manner of some experimental works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Cusk’s Outline (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) falls into neither camp. Most “experimental” novels fall into one of two categories: those that experiment with language, and those that experiment with representations of reality. ![]()
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