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Title: Pretentious fantasy
Review: The characters are artificial, the friendships and relationships contrived and utterly unconvincing , the anachronisms abound and the research is nill. Had Zadie Smith not been an attractive mixed race young woman I doubt this multiculti fairy story would have even been published. However it clearly fitted with the wishful thinking, fanciful imaginings of many of the privileged people in the media and book world expressing how they like to think multiculti London functions, and thus they were blinded to it's amateurishness and tedium.The fact that the author has failed to produce an impressive follow up, is something of an indicator of her lack of real application and talent IMO. I believe she has now quit novel writing entirely, evidence of the old maxim that 'those who can,do, and those who can't, teach', perhaps?
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