![]() This is a novel more concerned with potentialities, the tension of the time before, of something about to happen. There are plot threads-Lizzie meets an attractive stranger supports her addict brother works as an assistant for the charismatic Sylvia who hosts a climate change podcast called “Hell or High Water” becomes obsessed with doomsday preppers-but these threads don't go very far. It’s got wit and wisdom and a fantastic narrative voice in librarian Lizzie. This novel is both sardonic and warm, reflective of our anxious times but also strangely reassuring. It won’t be to everyone’s taste, thanks to the choppy style, specific brand of humour and refusal to deliver conventional narrative movement, but I thought it was brilliant. “First they came for the coral, but I did not say anything because I was not a coral.” : to come safely through a difficult period or experience ![]() : the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time ![]()
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