Hot Milk - Deborah Levy

45%
17.12.18

The cover says beautiful, clever, powerful, shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. I say badly written, incoherent, pretentious and full of wooden characters it's impossible to care about. But each to their own. I have a couple of other Levy novels I've not yet read, but I don't think I'll bother now.

Small Island - Andrea Levy

65%
27.06.05




I thought this would be like a po-faced 'White Teeth', but it was less epic and more humorous than I expected. Carefully researched, detailed and with interestingly hypocritical characters, it was let down by inconsistency and an inexplicable central coincidence. Almost worthy of its many awards.