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‘The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny. I laughed more times than I can remember over a novel for years … Ring Road is well-observed and endlessly inventive, with all the messiness of a real place. Sansom’s deadpan voice throws up jokes on every page.’ Observer
‘Sansom has a talent for demonstrating how the fantastic can grown quite naturally out of the familiar .. Few books published these days can fairly be described as charming and fewer still are the product of so generous an intelligence … It’s mellow, intelligent and very funny, a perfect antidote for melancholy.’ Michael Moorcok, Guardian
‘There is something fearless in the gaze Sansom turns on banality, and this novel is, in the end, a surprisingly gripping feat of coming to terms with what ordinary life is like.’ TLS
‘A wonderfully comic novel.’ Daily Mail
Francis King, Spectator
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It's about all these characters living on a ring road, living their lives, and the characterisation is brilliant. There's a preface and an index as well, which made me think of a kind of nineteenth-century novel. It's not like a modern novel at all. The style is very clear, but he deals with all these big questions at the same time, which is very clever, and very entertaining. It reminded me of Dave Eggers, but also Iris Murdoch. I've also heard him this week reading it on the radio, and as it says on the book jacket, he's a bit like Garrison Keillor, although with a squeaky voice.
All in all, really quite brilliant, and an excellent read. I would definitely recommend it.
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