Double Vision, (Paperback)

from mojacobs

As always with Pat Barker, reading just one page is enough for her to draw you into the book and the world she has created. Her characters are real people, some nice, some not so nice. Several stories intertwine: a widowed sculptor has a car accident and needs help to finish a commission, the war...

from mojacobs

As always with Pat Barker, reading just one page is enough for her to draw you into the book and the world she has created. Her characters are real people, some nice, some not so nice. Several stories intertwine: a widowed sculptor has a car accident and needs help to finish a commission, the war...

from dalzan

Having covered it all, from Bosnia to Ground Zero, foreign correspondent Stephen has hung up his flak jacket and gone to ground in a cottage on his brother's land, in a rural north-east devastated by the foot-and-mouth disaster. Two things have particularly moved him - the body of a raped and mut...

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[warning: potential spoilers] I am conflicted about this novel. It develops a lot of psychological tension which almost seems to demand some sort of incident . . . which doesn't really come. The story does see some resolution but in a rather arbitrary, quotidian way. And many of the strands don't...

from dalzan

Having covered it all, from Bosnia to Ground Zero, foreign correspondent Stephen has hung up his flak jacket and gone to ground in a cottage on his brother's land, in a rural north-east devastated by the foot-and-mouth disaster. Two things have particularly moved him - the body of a raped and mut...