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Cissie has reached a crisis in her life - her husband has turned to drink and she has an understanding with her sister's husband. Her son Graham sulks in the garden, alone with his father. Years later, Graham returns to see his mother to come to terms with the secret that has shaped their lives.
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A brilliant debut by a writer who's paid his dues
As you can see from the cover if you click on it, Jim Crace has a high opinion of this novel: 'Alan Mahar's Flight Patterns is wonderful; he is a writer of substance, patience and real flair.' I share that opinion. It's a novel that carefully and unflashily gives you a real sense of the tensions that can affect a perfectly ordinary family as they go about their lives. It's not a 'family saga' that doggedly makes its way through decade after decade - it is set in the 1950s and 1990s, and the narrative jumps between the two decades, and in the process the author's deft touch give the reader a very real sense of the flavour of these two decades without overloading the period detail. It's a very 'English' novel, which makes no concessions to transatlantic style - an outstandingly satisfying read.
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Beautiful first novel in the tradition of Tim Pears and Tim Binding
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