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I've been a fan of Patrick Neate ever since Twelve Bar Blues. His latest shows off his fabulous storytelling and comedic prowess and also provides a forum for him to skewer representations of race, class and colonialism. The book is divided into different strands, narrated by an ultra-cool London media type, his MP father, a war veteran in turn-of-the-20th-century England and an incarcerated shaman in the fictional country of Zamibia, among other characters. These strands all eventually come together, but each stands as an engaging, funny and no-holds-barred story.
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