Title: Waiting In Vain
Product review: I think that this is a gritty, charming, intelligent and, really very powerfully written first novel.Using the backdrop of London, Jamaica, Cuba and New York, the book focuses realistically, on the day-to-day trials and tribulations of ordinary people's lives.Colin channer has given his characters such depth to their personalities which is expressed, colourfully, through the use of poetic language, analogy and metaphor in depicting the way in which they interact with each other. Sometimes positively, and sometimes, with devastating results.The reader is allowed to access the main character's, Fire, psyche which is expertly done through 'streams of consciousness, reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's highly acclaimed novel Mrs Dalloway.I did feel that it lingered a little to long, for my liking, in coming to a conclusion - but, that said - it was certainly an ending worth waiting for.
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