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Title: Typical modern British writing
Review: This novel is in the same vein as the Adrian Mole and Bridget Feilding stories; simple observation dressed up as literature. The book is amusing, but remains on the level of a simple statement of facts (or observations) and never analyses any of them. I draw an equivalent between this and easy listening music, literary Dire Straits, to maintain the pop metaphor of the book. Lots of froth, but little or no beer.
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