Reviews

Close Relations by Deborah Moggach

caterinaanna's review

3.0

A family full of people having problems in love: marriages falling apart, relationships going sour in unexpected ways and generally no-one having a good time of it. But I suppose novels are like newspapaers: good news is no news. It was sad that all the happiness in tthe book was fleeting, but at least one became bothered enough to care. The style is also rather choppy, with lots of changes of point of view. This and the presence of some salacious details that make this a not for the prudish book, suggest it was written with filming in mind from the start. The copy I read had a TV tie in dustjacket and lots of typos, some of which should have been picked up by simple use of a spellchecker. Words like "privilidged" tend to jump out at me, slow down my reading and spoil my enjoyment.