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A nutbag of moments of intense (often sexual) fulfilment!, 31 Oct 2001
Love in a Nutbag is a novel I'm confident will have a significant appeal for women readers who enjoy novels that present a combination of literary, intellectual as well as sexual and romantic interest.The story presents a "parallel montage" in the lives of two women -- the modern granddaughter and the dead grandmother, suggesting how the two lives are bound together in a common quest for those epiphanies, or moments of intense (often sexual) fulfillment, that come out of the "nutbag" that our otherwise humdrum and prosaic lives occasionally present to us. In a nutshell (!), the story, while rooted in real life, presents a subtle line between easy-read and soft-core literary with a sprinkle of sexual realism. Though I am not a woman, I personally found the novel enjoyable and compulsive reading, so it may well have a wider appeal; and while it may well cater for the romantic inclination of the Joanna Trollope reader, it will, as I said, certainly appeal to the 'thinking' woman -- and man! It has energy and emotional texture as well as beautifully crafted language. The style is succinct, the language evocative -- both sensuous and sensual. Charles Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London), DLitt (OFS), DEd (SA)
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