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`South London deserves to be celebrated in all its tawdry glory - and in this the author has succeeded admirably'
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved every page,
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This review is from: South of the River (Paperback)
The book is written how a soap opera should be with all the day to day minutiae of life - showing how people deal with the big issues and that they are usually swamped by the little issues. Often the characters in the story are unable to see the consequences of their actions today (like real life) but the annual updates throughout the story show the consequences effectively.
The social and political setting was used well and (being in my 20s at the time) it felt familiar and comfortable. The stories are intriguing and complex, leading the reader in one direction then turning you around to face the real story. All the way through there are clues about the characters meaning that you are continually wanting to know more. I was hooked to this book right to the last page and thought it could have gone on for another 500 pages.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: South of the River (Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book and I also thought that it was very funny in parts. I was engaged in the stories of the five characters who are all inter connected in some way particularly Nat and Libbys story. Nat has absolutely no insight at all in respect of his selfish and narcisstic behaviour and I found him horrifyingly believable. I also liked the structure of the book which follows the characters over 5 years dropping in each year, it shows how their lifes and expectations change. The novel starts on election night 1997 and the initial surge of euphoria and optimism that followed New Labours coming into power. I would thoroughly recommend.
23 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Any river, anywhere,
By daffodilly (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: South of the River (Hardcover)
This interesting tale of four writers of one kind or another, all middle-class or socially mobile, is set in south-east London. However as a 'local' I found nothing familiar about this area: you need more than a few placenames like "in Woolwich market" or "in Catford" to yield a sense of place. Topical references (presumably intended to evoke the zeitgeist following the new 1997 Labour government) get shunted into sub-clauses, while the protagonists busy themselves with the shenanigans of too many contemporary novels: adultery, the tedium of university teaching, it's a hard life in advertising etc. It's hard to care about any of these people except Harry, the black local newspaper hack, who is nevertheless burdened with stereotypical baggage. This could be any city in Britain. Coe's 'The Closed Circle' did it better, and with more political bite. There are a few inaccuracies in the decriptions of 'over the water', eg the precise location of factories in Silvertown, and the 'Wanstead Tree'. If Morrison intended south of the Thames to be symbolic, ie a liminal space, just as the characters (arguably) endure such a position, it's insulting to residents as well as hackneyed. Shame, I expected better from Morrison, a writer I admire.
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