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Disappear
* A powerful and moving novel by a widely praised young novelist.Charlie Bell's picture is in the paper. He is a popular young man with a successful hedge fund and London is full of money. Then in one evening, everything changes. When his wife Leila threatens to leave him, a journey begins in which they are both forced to discover what they believe in. The plot sweeps the reader from glitzy pre-crisis London , through the Midsummer Night's Dream of rural Spain and then back again to the grittier London of The Hillford Estate and a charitable drop-in centre for kids. Throughout the book, the inner stories reflect the outer one of the financial crisis. As grand illusions fade, Disappear questions the connection between couples, between family members, even between the helper and the helped. Ultimately it looks at our very sense of belonging and is it possible simply to disappear from your own life? In the climactic final scenes, set in the heat and sensual chaos of Notting Hill Carnival, each of the main characters will live out their answer.
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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March 2, 2021
Clunky, confusing and has a bunch of traumatic side stories which only exist to prop up a half baked love story between a bunch of white people that are then dropped without resolutions.
July 14, 2016
Unable to figure out what the author was trying to say in this 250+ pages long story. There is no concrete story line. Too much of detail added when creating a scene. It could be the style of the author as haven't read any other books of Talitha, but it looks more like filling up the pages, and not leaving anything to the imagination of the reader.
The story starts off with a very common theme, of a girl moving out of a relationship, and being totally unsure of what she wants. And till the end she was unsure of what she wanted, not achieving anything in almost 300 pages. The story just goes on and on like a usual person's life. It neither makes you cry, nor laugh, nor surprised, nor sad, nothing at all. The only genre that the book belongs to is "boring". What a waste of paper!
The story starts off with a very common theme, of a girl moving out of a relationship, and being totally unsure of what she wants. And till the end she was unsure of what she wanted, not achieving anything in almost 300 pages. The story just goes on and on like a usual person's life. It neither makes you cry, nor laugh, nor surprised, nor sad, nothing at all. The only genre that the book belongs to is "boring". What a waste of paper!
July 28, 2011
Read this last year when it came out in Hardcover. Didn't love it as much as her first two books but this was still well-written and a solid effort.
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