Nosemonkey’s Reviews > Ulverton > Status Update

Continued snapshots of village life linked by half-remembered tradition and an all-pervading nostalgia that seems to see technological progress as akin to war in its destructiveness, and looking backwards the only respectable way to approach life. I may be misinterpreting, but hard to see this as anything other than inventive whimsy.

So yeah, I was very wrong on the style. Changes every chapter, along with the characters. Interesting - and the overall themes are starting to emerge and make sense to me now.

So far reads like every single late 20th century piece of English literary fiction set in the provinces, even when written first person in the style of the early 18th century. There's a pace to it, a tone. It's weird - you don't get this with books from similar authors set in other locations, just those set in vague not-London rural/suburban communities. Probably because it feels very mich like them.