6/8/2023 0 Comments Tim riley john lennon![]() ![]() ![]() It has its moments, mind I’m not dismissing it completely out of hand. ![]() I thought the arch of the plot was a bit contrived too, though with the right casting it would make great telly. I was in the former camp and agreed with the woman of Irish origin who said the whole thing was “too English” – and middle class southerner English to boot. Tessa Hadley‘s The past (2015), December’s Book Group book, occasioned a split between those who couldn’t warm particularly to any of the middle-aged siblings taking their annual time out together in an old house in the middle of nowhere with family connections, and those who thought that didn’t matter in the matter of how well crafted a novel it was.
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