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Review title: Irritating though also run-of-the-mill
Product review: oh dear, I was taken in by the hype. I'm afraid this is the kind of mass-produced, pseudo-intellectual novel which is giving British Literature a bad name. The atmosphere of the book is really annoyingly upper-class Englishness which wasn't even really realistic in the 1920s. The plot is fairly gripping but the content is stuck on "wisdoms" and grand themes which are actually rather banal. The characters you end up wanting to slap, the author's voice is pretentious and pompous . . . a useful doorstop though, so it had its advantages.
