Dedicated to Christopher Hitchens.
An e-book, from the PC Library.
copyright 2012
"My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British Security Service. Within eighteen months of joining I was sacked, having disgraced myself and ruined my lover, though he certainly had a hand in his own undoing."
These are the first two sentences of the novel.
This took me less than two days to read. It was entertaining, and quite clever. My only criticism is that it might just be a bit too clever: I'm not sure that the "trick" of this work doesn't overshadow the rest of it.
But I don't regret reading it, and may try McEwan again, just to see what else he does, if he does indeed do anything else?
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