This is a very good book, but muscular and not an easy read. About millennial London, but quite unlike 684 or Lanchester’s ‘Capital’; this is much darker and less expansive.
The plot begins with a woman found dead in the Thames and then bounces around between various characters peripherally involved in this. There is no real plot; it is at best episodic, but she is a very good and clever writer and I would read this again and should look out for her other books.
There is a well made point towards the end apropos Brexit and the deportation of foreigners that is happening in the book that ‘the English are withdrawing back into themselves like a mollusc to its shell. All those centuries a great empire with its pink map and now they are turning their backs on the world’. Wow!
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