- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (3 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241143187
- ISBN-13: 978-0241143186
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,787,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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November, 2002, and sixteen-year-old Clare is travelling from Glasgow to Florence with her older brother Danny to be a part of the anti-capitalist demo. Amidst the crowds they meet Julian and Letitia, two alluring and seductive anti-capitalists from down south. Over the next few years the lives of Danny, Clare, Letitia and Julian become impossibly tangled in the personal and the political as each decides what is and what's not worth shouting about. But how will they come to shape the world - and how will the world come to shape them?
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Alison Miller grew up in Orkney and now lives in Glasgow. She worked for the WEA (Workers Educational Association) in an adult education project in Castlemilk, Glasgow, and more recently co-ordinated the counselling and group work service in the Centre for Women's Health. In 2003 she graduated with Distinction from the M.Phil in Creative Writing run by Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. Now, as well as writing, she works freelance as an adult educator and counselling supervisor.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is a wonderful book, fast, funny and clever - a real page turner that sets off at a cracking pace and is absolutely packed with incident and observation. Alison Miller writes brilliantly about the close up encounters between people - what is said and what isn't - and young Clare is a joy as she boldly meets life, art, politics (and her first sexual encounter) in Florence.
This book has so much to enjoy, and reflect on - love, class politics (big and small), the puzzle of life and relationships. All the characters, including the minor ones, were vivid and even when they were off-stage, I had the real sense of their stories continuing.
The book ended too soon for me. I enjoyed all the characters but it is Clare who really sticks in my mind. You want to cheer as she meets life head on - the subject of her own story and not about to become anyone's object, wittingly or unwittingly. A great character - go girl go!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I picked this up as it was a debut novel and as I went along to the big anti war march in London back in 2003, I wanted to see if this captured the feeling of the time.
The story runs over a few years and is told by 15 year old Clare and 26 year old Laetitia, and although their relationship is believeable, I felt that their interaction floundered after the chapters in Italy, which I imagine was the point after Laetitia messes Clare about, but I wanted them to have some sort of confrontation/meaningful interaction but it never came.
Neither did any sort of revelation about the great aunt that Laetitia becomes obsessed with and the male characters of Julian and Danny, who although fantastically well-observed, never seemed to end up saying much.
This aside, I actually REALLY enjoyed reading this book, as it is well-written, uses interesting devices like having no speech marks and two strong female narrators, and I especially like the first part by Clare, who detailed her first experiences of activism, sex and seafood pasta, with observations that made me remember how confusing and odd teenage life can be.
The story runs over a few years and is told by 15 year old Clare and 26 year old Laetitia, and although their relationship is believeable, I felt that their interaction floundered after the chapters in Italy, which I imagine was the point after Laetitia messes Clare about, but I wanted them to have some sort of confrontation/meaningful interaction but it never came.
Neither did any sort of revelation about the great aunt that Laetitia becomes obsessed with and the male characters of Julian and Danny, who although fantastically well-observed, never seemed to end up saying much.
This aside, I actually REALLY enjoyed reading this book, as it is well-written, uses interesting devices like having no speech marks and two strong female narrators, and I especially like the first part by Clare, who detailed her first experiences of activism, sex and seafood pasta, with observations that made me remember how confusing and odd teenage life can be.
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