Enjoyable, but lightweight. If this is meant to be a post-Brexit "state of the nation" novel, it offers very little competition to classics like "Middlemarch," and I can't see it becoming an instant modern classic, like "Midnight's Children"or "Bonfire of the Vanities" -- its scope is too limited, and its judgments too bland and obvious. (Try not to think what Eliot , Rushdie or Wolfe would have done with the spoiled Londoners who -- oh, the horror, the horror -- have to relocate to a cottage in the Devonshire countryside after recent economic upheavals, and the UKIP-voting, Aldi-shopping locals they encounter.
BUT ... 4 stars because it was very readable, and in the end provided an interesting metaphor for the way Brexit might work out
BUT ... 4 stars because it was very readable, and in the end provided an interesting metaphor for the way Brexit might work out
