Title: Block that metaphor!
Review: So much of The Memory Palace is compelling: the secondary and most of the primary characters, the depiction of life on a working estate at the time of the civil war, and the vivid picture of the plight of a single woman at that time. But the central conceit, the Memory Palace of the title, is a metaphor that becomes increasingly strained, leading to one of the more far-fetched denouements I've read, not to mention some laughably stilted dialogue. Oh dear...
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