London, Christmas 2007, just before the financial crash. 7 very different people leading very different lives
that are all linked in ways they can't possibly imagine. This novel creates complex patterns that weave a fascinating story of modern life. We see how greed, the differences between what people appear to be and what they truly are, and the silent despair so many people endure, can cause world wide chaos and yet be suppressed beneath a thin veneer of shallow gloss.
A clever story, well crafted, that can teach the untutored reader much about the bloody world of unregulated finance, the ease with which the intensity of youth can be diverted into self-destruction and how lazy parenting fails children.
This sounds like a melancholy, desperate book. Actually, it's clever plot and good writing lifts it into something really worth reading. There's love here, too, in unexpected places, and a reprieve from terrible tragedy, so it's not all doom and gloom.
Recommended
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