Our House - Louise Candlish

52%
20.01.19

This is so aggressively middle-class that at times I suspected it was a satire. With so many smug, entitled characters, and such an improbable plot, it would have been better if it had been.

The Sudden Departure of the Frasers - Louise Candlish

65%
20.12.17

Now, this is interesting. In many ways, this is quite like 'Exquisite' (the book I read before it) - an overdramatisation of a domestic situation told from two unsympathetic points of view. It's silly and frustrating and unrealistic but, oddly, it's also fun, engaging and highly readable, the sort of story that's perfect for winter nights on a beanbag with a glass of mulled wine.