To paraphrase Wallace Stevens: A man and a woman are one. Hooper's steady hand creates the perfect setup for the unexpected.
This may be the best novel to meaningfully feature windblown dust. Hooper has more or less nailed the 'Amelie' charm with this sweet, disarming story of lasting love.Hooper shows great restraint in balancing the quirky with the universal, blurring the lines between them. Hooper has written an interesting, nuanced and genuinely moving book. a clear and beautifully unadorned prose style.
( The Times)īeautifully written.this deserves to follow in the footsteps of 2014's big debut novels The Miniaturistand Elizabeth Is Missing. Only the thrills offered by this bright new star of literature are metaphysical and unexpected and will leave you thinking on a new level about the connections between men, women and places. as readable and gripping as any thriller. Her parting wish, before she catches the train back to Bath, is for readers of Etta and Otto and Russell and James to “trust the conclusion that they draw”.Writing that easily equals that of the Booker-winning Richard Flanagan. And most people don’t have the chance to ask the author.” People want to know if they are right or not. So did Penguin ask for a clearer resolution? “Not as my publishers, I think just as human beings. So it’s definitely, deliberately ‘choose your own adventure’ there at the end,” she says. I really like the idea that people can come up with really strong opinions as to what happened and it really doesn’t matter what I think.
“Within my academic life, I’m very into the ‘death of the author’, what that did to art and what it continues to do. This is exactly the result Hooper was aiming for. “I had a meeting with Juliet and the publicists last week- and they were like: ‘So, we all disagree on what happens at the end. I found the ending of the novel to be ambiguous, which Hooper is delighted to hear. But you don’t want to turn people off and you don’t want to be self-indulgent, so striking the right balance took a little bit of back and forth.” “I wanted it to be non-linear and a little bit confusing at times. Deb I just finished and was wondering the same thing.Found this in an interview with the author, "The sense of an ending As the novel goes on, the past an …more I just finished and was wondering the same thing.Found this in an interview with the author,Īs the novel goes on, the past and the present-and what is real and what is imagined-all start to blur.
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