| 'Scintillating... It's funny, quick on the draw, and know when to soften the gaze. It reads so smoothly, the pages seem to flip themselves
Observer
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Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart’s best friend Oliver is his complete opposite – a language teacher who ‘talks like a dictionary’, brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married, but it is not long before a tentative friendship between the three evolves into something far different.
Talking it Over is a brilliant and intimate account of love's vicissitudes. It begins as a comedy of misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing us compellingly into the quagmires of the heart.
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| A wonderfully wistful and funny novel
Daily Telegraph
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| A writer of rare intelligence. He catches the detail of contemporary life with an uncanny forensic skill... He is, as always, a superb ironist, a connoisseur of middling, muddling, modern England
London Review of Books
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| Few writers think and talk to beguilingly. This book is wonderfully funny. An intelligent. And moving
Independent on Sunday
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| Quick-silver clever and allusive
The Times
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| The author is not merely a dazzling entertainer, he is a no-nonsense moralist as well, and is as dextrous with the darker elements of betrayal and pain as with the farcical mechanics of love and clashing temperament
New Yorker
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Vintage • General & literary fiction • Previous
ISBN: 0099540134
Publication date: 06/08/2009 • 288 pages • B format • EAN: 9780099540137 |
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