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Journey of self-discovery,
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This review is from: Greater Love (Paperback)
This is a tale of love, redemption, bereavement and a journey of self-discovery. It covers Muslim and Christian religions and how their differences can affect relationships between Westerners and Muslims. It's a book that has its fill of sorrow but yet retains a strong sense of hope. With this novel Wadham has written a topical tale, but done so in a very sensitive style. Her writing is beautifully descriptive and kept me glued to the pages.
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One of a kind,
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For those readers who find most contemporary literary fiction high on polish but low on passion, this terrific novel will come as a welcome shot in the arm.
Traversing Portugal, Paris and Morocco, it's a brave book from a writer unafraid to take risks. At its heart lies a collision between bourgeois Westerner and devout Muslim, something that all too easily could feel forced or deliberately 'topical'. That isn't the case, however, as Wadham invests each of her characters with real humanity and individuality. They may not always be likeable, but they're always interesting. Like the reviewer above, I too am mildly puzzled by Wadham's relatively low profile. If 'The Long Tail' is to be believed, I'm sure it won't last forever as she's simply too enjoyable a writer to remain a secret for much longer.
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The Next Andrea Levy?,
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I have now read all of Lucy Wadham's books, and I can't quite understand why she isn't getting greater attention from the literay press. I read Greater Love - and fiction isn't really my thing - and I couldn't help but thinking that here is a writer with yet another book of tremendous quality, engaging themes, sensory and sensitive writing. One day Lucy Wadham is going to be very big indeed, and like Andrea Levy with Small Island, people will be rushing not only to read her latest novel, but gobbling up her back list. I'd love her to turn her attention to England in her next novel, although the dark underworlds she is so at home in are what first caught my attention.
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