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Very strange book! Started off ok about a group of friends who wanted to have a weekend away with no mobile phones etc and tell stories instead for entertainment. The stories themselves were actually quite good, but were they that, just stories or were they real? I didn’t like that there were no quotation marks when the characters spoke, this was annoying. Then the book actually didn’t have an actual ending- so frustrating.
I read this book for my in branch book club so will be interesting to see ...more
I read this book for my in branch book club so will be interesting to see ...more
I have really loved some of Macauley's trenchant, hilarious satirical books and was looking forward to this immensely. It left me a little nonplussed. Macauley sets up a series of stories within a story structure, with a bunch of middle-aged friends taking a weekend away together to disconnect from the world and tell each other stories. The stories told are compelling and the atmosphere of foreboding builds as they find themselves trapped by bad weather, but the group are quickly revealed to be
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Nov 23, 2014
Lauren
marked it as tbr-longlist
