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    <body><![CDATA[Another example of a fine book which would have been so much better with fewer pages.  Mason has a tendency to want to hold your hand and explain everything to the reader.  I'm not spoiling anything my saying that the narrator has killed his wife so the entire book is spent explaining what led up to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48638073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say I was a little dissapointed in this book.  From the synopsis on the back of the book, I was expecting a real page-turner; a gripping novel full of mystery and romance.  While the book is somewhat romantic, I felt it read more like a soap opera.  Not many of the characters are very symp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22124753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is one of my favourite books...it is very astonishing how a person so young can write such a powerful book...this book contains everything...love,betrayal,murder....everything...awesome book...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like a really bad car wreck you can't look away...I had to see how it all ended. About as grisly as you'd expect...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It made me cry. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book starts like this: «My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesteray afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success. Of course I know that she did nothing of the kind...It was I who killed her.» (bac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21487320">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was like an old fashioned book. i think it was compared to rebecca and i see it, definitely. despite being in an old style, it still kept my interest. it's about a man whose whole life was altered by some events back when he was about 21, and now he's old, 70s or 80s, telling after having ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34343245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Drowning People]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon.  At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success... It was I who killed her.&quot; Thus begins the much-hyped first novel by 20-year-old Oxford undergraduate Richard Mason. Your typical murder mystery <em>The Drowning People</em> is not, for we are given the identity of the killer--the <em>who</em>--immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is <em>why</em>--why did 70-year-old James Farrell murder his aristocratic wife, Sarah? The answer lies nearly 50 years into the past as the book ranges from Prague to London, from France to a remote castle in Cornwall. At its core is an intoxicating love affair between 22-year-old James, a talented violinist and hopeless romantic, and Ella Harewood, an American heiress to an English title, trapped by her heritage and destiny. A beautifully written exploration of self-absorbed first love and its tragic consequences, <em>The Drowning People</em> soars beyond the highest of expectations placed upon it. <em>--Shannon Bingham, Amazon.co.uk</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book when it first came out in 1999 but didn't read it until 2007.  It was selected as a &quot;fresh new voice&quot; author at the time of publication and could easily have been chosen in 2007.  A fabulous book of love and deception.  Sadly, the book is now out of print.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon.  At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success... It was I who killed her.&quot; Thus begins the much-hyped first novel by 20-year-old Oxford undergraduate Richard Mason. Your typical murder mystery <em>The Drowning People</em> is not, for we are given the identity of the killer--the <em>who</em>--immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is <em>why</em>--why did 70-year-old James Farrell murder his aristocratic wife, Sarah? The answer lies nearly 50 years into the past as the book ranges from Prague to London, from France to a remote castle in Cornwall. At its core is an intoxicating love affair between 22-year-old James, a talented violinist and hopeless romantic, and Ella Harewood, an American heiress to an English title, trapped by her heritage and destiny. A beautifully written exploration of self-absorbed first love and its tragic consequences, <em>The Drowning People</em> soars beyond the highest of expectations placed upon it. <em>--Shannon Bingham, Amazon.co.uk</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a chore to read - the characters were wholly overprivileged and unsympathetic, and the plot twists were either totally ludicrous or so blatantly signposted as to be utterly banal when they were finally 'revealed'. Not recommended.]]></body>
    
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