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A Quiet Revolution (Paperback)

by Cilla Lancelyn Green (Author)
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  • Paperback: 252 pages
  • Publisher: Solidus (1 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954337743
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954337742
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.1 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,433,164 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars My friend's mum wrote this book and I haven't read it, 26 Dec 2004
As I suggest in the title of this review, I haven't actually read the book in question. However, I do not think that this should act as an impediment to my review as I am well practiced in the arts of fabrication and misinformation. Besides, as I also suggest in the well-chosen title to this review, it is my friend Anna's mother who has authored the book in question.

Revelution is a tumultuous, yet thought-provoking, tale of family problems in which the author reveals a finely developed talent for social observation and the crafting of well-textured, emotionally layered characters. The dialogue is at times fast paced and witty; and at others it telling displays the author's talent for exploring the extremes of human emotion. The children so graphically, even disturbingly, portrayed strike the attentive reader as symbols of the decadence and decay of a Western society beset by a mixture of materialism and cultural bankruptcy. The "Anna" character's spiritual journey of growth is one in which we can all find inspiration, excitement and - for at least someone - a frightening disconcerting sense of deja vu.

Although I haven't read this book, I feel that the cyclical and yet unilear quality of the structure compliments this allegory of modern Britain in an assured fashion that one rarely sees in the shortsightedly narrative-driven novels of the present cultural mileu.

Cilla Green's book will change your life in a profound and irreversible sense - it changed mine - and I think that it can be said with confidence that it reveals an author at the top of her oeuvre. Her work dissects the modern British family with a surgical precision and a verisimilitude which is nonpareil. This book is the most important event in publishing since the last Harry Potter book. In fact, it's so good, I'm going to go and read it again - or rather for the first time.

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