| Nothing to Lose |  | Author: Tania Kindersley
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Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0753168715
EAN: 9780753168714
ASIN: 0753168715
Publication Date: April 2003
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Odd but worth reading November 13, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved the opening of this book. A woman's life is ruined when she accidentally runs over and kills a child. She retires from life and moves into a faintly seedy London locale in the shadow of the Westway. A great beginning that reminded me of lots of writers that I like: Iris Murdoch (the meaningless accident that destroys a life), Barbara Pym (the genteel bedsitter exiled from "normal" society) and Murial Spark (how to live with guilt). But, just as I was settling into all of this the story moves to Scotland, and there is a sudden change of gear down. Ms Kindersley obviously loves Scotland and its beautiful scenery but it is difficult to write about this sort of thing in a fresh way and there's more than a whiff of Mills and Boon. Our heroine meets her hero; he is a writer and is sort of Alexander Trocchi meets Ted Hughes meets Edward Rochester, they fall in love and the sex is fantastic (natch). It was at this point that I began to feel a bit betrayed by this book; what happened to our mousy Jane Eyre that I was growing so fond of, suddenly she's last of the demon lovers (this is an exaggeration but I had rather things had remained more awkward between them, a bit more Rebecca-ish). Then there is a bit of mooching around Scotland and some new characters, "something nasty in the woodshed", an amazing coincidence (or rather a novelistic one) as some of the old characters we met in the beginning make a reappearance, a crisis then eclairissement. I would still recommend this book though and have bought Tania Kindersley's other books on the strength of it (yet to read them though, hmm...) because 1. the opening is brilliant 2. there is a really interesting (and hard) moral to this book about deception 3. OK, so I quite like a soppy romance element 4. Scotland IS fab. Anyway I read this AGES ago. Perhaps other people could write their reviews I haven't met anyone else who has read it. Get writing!
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