Janey March inhabits a world where food and love are king. Worn down by starvation diets and a series of romances that have raised and dashed her hopes, she longs for domestic bliss, and all the bread and jam she can eat, but most of all for her father, dead now ten years. Spanning one eventful weekend, The Normal Man is a delightful and acute portrait of a singular psychology. Strewn with jokes and eccentricities, and peopled with characters of questionable normality, it marks the debut of a wonderful new talent.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining First Novel,
By A. St. James "books and more books" (Cambridge) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Normal Man (Paperback)
Nice debut, with a soft Austen underbelly in the voice that's fun to read. Not as good as reviewers claim, of course, because these literary debuts hardly ever are, but a writer to watch out for. Worth reading.
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The competition in the women's magazine was in three parts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Janey March, Norman March, Bad Love, Greenly Terrace, Jane Austen, Caroline March, Price Cuts, Sydney Hiller, The Happy Chip, Anna Karenina, Edward Oxley, Hail Mary, Holy Mary, King's Cross, Miss Spud, Tottenham Court Road New!
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The competition in the women's magazine was in three parts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Janey March, Norman March, Bad Love, Greenly Terrace, Jane Austen, Caroline March, Price Cuts, Sydney Hiller, The Happy Chip, Anna Karenina, Edward Oxley, Hail Mary, Holy Mary, King's Cross, Miss Spud, Tottenham Court Road New!
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- Italian Food (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth David on page 84
- The Characters of Love by Susie Boyt in Front Matter
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