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Title: Zzzzzzzzzz ...
Review: Three of my favourite authors strongly recommend this book on the back cover, and so I brought it for a plane flight from Australia to England in order to kill a few hours. It worked, but only because the book sent me to sleep. Bad for three reasons. Firstly, it's ridiculously overwritten, with massive tangled descriptive passages that give no sense of place and induce headaches in the reader. Secondly, none of the characters were at all interesting, and I couldn't give a damn about what happened to any of them. Thirdly, Norfolk keeps showing off his historical knowledge, rather than weaving it smoothly into the text like, for instance, Barry Unsworth. Unreadable.
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