The Last Hope of Girls, by Susan Boyt June 25, 2006
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This rather unusual book may well bear rereading. We are given a window into PhD student Martha’s life as she moves in to be the caretaker of a block of flats on Oxford St being refurbished.
It’s perhaps best described a collection of stories, joined together by the characters and the progress of time, rather than any particular plot.
We observe her go about her life, shopping though rarely buying in Selfridges, dealing with her father’s marriage and new baby, her
brother’s drug addiction and imprisonment and finally deciding to read her father’s novels. Her world is painted in great detail, but she is somehow detached from it, observing and letting it all sink in.
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