Hello James, I’m just reading this now myself so I won’t read your review just yet, but I’m curious about the cover. Mine is the first edition hardback with a jacket design by Sandy Cull, basically a long shot of the Coathanger across a vista of sea water. Its blurber is AS Byatt. Which edition is yours? Have they issued a 2nd edition already?
I liked The Lost Dog a great deal but just found that the ambition of this novel was outstripped by it’s grasp. Your take is pretty persuasive, though.
Hello James, I’m just reading this now myself so I won’t read your review just yet, but I’m curious about the cover. Mine is the first edition hardback with a jacket design by Sandy Cull, basically a long shot of the Coathanger across a vista of sea water. Its blurber is AS Byatt. Which edition is yours? Have they issued a 2nd edition already?
Hi Lisa, the review copy I have is the US one, to be published there by Little, Brown in May.
I’ll look forward to your review of Questions of Travel.
Ah *wry smile* that explains the absence of the coathanger!
Hi James I am also looking forward to coming back and reading your review. I have Questions bought but unread, am working through my large pile.
Thanks Jenny – look forward to your thoughts.
Hi James, I liked it more than you did, see http://anzlitlovers.com/2013/01/24/questions-of-travel-by-michelle-de-kretser/
IMO it’s a much better book than The Lost Dog, resolving the faults I found in that one admirably.
I liked The Lost Dog a great deal but just found that the ambition of this novel was outstripped by it’s grasp. Your take is pretty persuasive, though.
Did you review The Lost Dog somewhere, James? I’d like to read it if you did:)
Thanks Lisa. My reading of The Lost Dog preceded my reviewing years.