usually, I ;like her work but found this smug and irritating - it felt like a bit like a Joanna Trolope novel (or at least as I remember them to be with lots ofd comforably off midle classes living fairly mundane lives until something comes along to cause ripples on the surface of the water.
the something in this case, was Nina a recently widowed willowly stunner who soon sets the cathedral close alight as her and Gordon (whose fecund wife is in hospital dropping another baby ) embark on a passionate fling. the rverbarations soon set off a chain reaction of other affairs and revelations.
suppose that once upon a time, this might have been interesting but soon found i was a bit bored by it all. the treatment of the various marriages and couplings is very uneven so some are much more vividly realised than others where you are searching to remember who they are and what their back story is.
the end tries to pull it all together and overlay some vague moral lessons and conclusions but it all seemed a bit pointless by that point and I just wanted to escape the feeling of complanecy that underlay the book as a whole- very disappointing from a writer who can do a lot better
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