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“... the trouble with this novel is that Jack, Sarah and Charles give us nothing you wouldn’t expect. Alice Hoffman’s Turtle Moon promises better. It is set in Verity, the most humid and the quietest spot in eastern Florida, a town where the only sound is that of strangler figs dropping their fruit on the roofs of parked cars. The opening is witty and ...”

“... scepticism. A terrible artist’s snobbery is at work here, even in the best of these five books, Alice Hoffman’s Seventh Heaven and Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World. Carlo Gebler dissents from this attitude; unfortunately he writes less well. Still, there were times when I warmed to Life of a Drum, lacking though it is in the ...”