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"He was given things to do, people to call, trains to ride and liked the word "protégé". But his brother said it was all wrong: there was an official word for boys like him, they were spivs. "'Spiv' described the relationship without defining it, the lack of reason that made people speak of love."
Monomaniacal millionaire Mack; the diseased, obsessive and violently fond Ludwig; tenderly exploitable Aesop; Dr Achilles--Ludwig's emotionally clinical dermatologist who collects human specimens from amongst the dispossessed and Douglas the one-legged chauffeur who drives, murders and loves his wife with equal dedication--these are the gently ironic characters out of whose emotional topography Sarah May shapes the landscape of her first novel.
Plotted amongst the symbolic, claustrophobic debris of Victorian industrialisation, May's archetypes of late 20th century degeneration seek salvation in each other in their attempts to escape their fate as human hosts to an unnamed epidermal epidemic. She demonstrates a skill for keen characterisation through emotionally freighted dialogue and high impact metaphor. Readers who prefer stronger plotting should persist with the early ambiguities of this novel--May pulls together the momentum of this story in a plot that is weighted more successfully in its second half.
Reminiscent of Doris Lessing's surreal fantasies of urban degeneration in novels like Memoirs of a Survivor, this is an ambitious first novel that, in the words of one of its characters, "leaves its fingerprint behind." One of the most indelible impressions of The Nudist Colony is its stripping back of contemporary England to the decaying architecture of empire that underpins it. -- Rachel Holmes
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