Author: Penelope Fitzgerald –
Publisher: Fourth Estate –
Genre: Fiction –
Overall rating: 4/5 –
Writing, content: 4/5 –
Duration: 5:01 h, short –
Narrator: Jot Davies, Stephanie Racine –
Narrator/performance: 4/5 –
Impressions: 3/5 –
Performance errors: 0/5 –
Complexity/reading level: 1/5 –
Audience: General
Commentary/review
Pleasant, short, bizarre. The children seem adult, adults seem childish. Probably worth a read but nowhere near revolutionary.
The novel received the Booker Prize.
The cover is strange, the book is strange, it all fits.
Cover photo by Martti Salmi on Unsplash