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An Irresponsible Age
A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. 'An Irresponsible Age', Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite enviable way, clinging together after the death of a brother and the retreat of their grieving parents. When Juliet, the focus of them all, is drawn into a complex love affair with the enigmatic Jacob, the others, too, find themselves falling in love, and then evading the consequences. None will admit what they are doing, or why.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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May 9, 2017
Adult siblings in London in the 90s are coping with the death of their brother in different ways. I enjoyed the setting and the different characters, but the back and forth was quite confusing. I would search out other books of Greenlaw's to read.
October 22, 2014
This is no good. What a disappointment after I enjoyed Importance so much! I'm sure this is a very skilful homage to the Woolf novel it picks up, but I found the writing to be anaemic and the constant POV switches (my bugbear) infuriating. I didn't care about any of the characters and I didn't believe in any of their situations. Ugh.
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