When Belinda, a writer married to Stefan, a geneticist, hires a cleaner called Linda, she gets more than she bargained for. With a knack for making drudgery seem glamorous, it's not long before Linda seems to take over Belinda's whole life.
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‘A classic comic novel, unashamed, exuberant, fiendishly clever, and a joy to read.‘ Daily Telegraph‘“Going Loco” is wonderfully underplayed, unpredictable and unexpectedly sinister.’ Sunday Express'Sings with glittering prose… delicious.' Time Out'A complex plot, chock-full of “characters”, slapstick and mystery… achieves laughs through real inventiveness.' The Times
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Lynne Truss is one of Britain's best-loved comic writers and is the author of the worldwide bestsellers 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' and 'Talk to the Hand'. She reviews for the Sunday Times and writes regularly for radio.
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Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Lynne Truss goes loco....,
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This review is from: Going Loco Pb (Paperback)
After reading her thoroughly enjoyable "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," I came across this wonderfully funny bit of fiction from the mind of Lynne Truss. What a great -- and completely different -- follow up to her grammar rant.
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This review is from: Going Loco (Paperback)
This is a comic novel about many, many things. There are several interrelated plots going on all at once. There is too much to summarize, but everything is constructed around the theme of the doppleganger. There are many doubles in this book--people who look alike, people who take on one another's identity, people who complement and supplement each other in various ways--and all the subplots look at the double from a different angle.
The humor of this novel is based around absurd characters and bizarre plot twists. However, no matter how ridiculous things get, Truss's characters remain in the moment and true to their natures. Because of this, the story did not strain my suspension of disbelief. To the end I felt invested in the characters. This is what makes the jokes funny and keeps the plot twists interesting. What makes this book truly memorable is that this tangle of plot twists is all constructed around a theme. Thus, the surprises, while still unexpected, never seem arbitrary. Instead, they all seem perfectly natural, exactly as they should be. Everything seems part of a unified whole, and each twist seems to reveal more of it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
wild ride,
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If you like plot twists this is a good book for you...I don't think it will ever be a classic but it's an entertaining read.
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