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I made it to page 14 before giving up on it. I could already tell by the language and the tone of this book that I had zero interest in reading any more of it.
The novel deals with two families connected by the friendship of their fathers which goes back to World War II. Archie Jones, who in the opening pages attempted suicide, soon after meets and marries a girl less than half his age, Clara Bowden. She's a girl of Jamaican extraction raised as a Jehovah's Witness described, when she enters the story, as having no upper teeth. This is how she sees her husband three months after the wedding:
No white knight, then, this Archibald Jones. No aims, no hope...more
There wasn't one sympathetic character (well, maybe one?) in the book but despite that I enjoyed it. There were some funny, sad parts. Felt like a British tv drama/comedy. Possibly a 3 1/2*.
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