Status Updates From Game Control

Sorry but this book is not a novel, it’s an argument and too thinly veiled for me to continue with. Normally I persevere with Shriver as you could claim all her novels are dramatisations of knotty issues, but this hadn’t the saving graces of the others: all the characters were unlikeable and the pace was simply too slow.

"Such miracles of taxidermy might have cautioned Eleanor to age with more grace, but she herself had never felt dazzling, and perhaps this was the compensation: that in later years, at least she would not delude herself she had retained powers she never thought she wielded in the first place."
pg 58

"She was only aware in later years, once her looks had begun to slip, that she had once been rather pretty."
pg 13