A Partisan's Daughter By Louis De Bernières
Posted at 4:54PM Wednesday 12 Mar 2008
A Partisan's Daughter is as melancholic as Corelli is cheery. It is 1979 - dread words - and Chris, who drives a "s**t-brown Allegro", is reluctantly going home to his wife, whom he calls The Great White Loaf, when he sees Roza wearing a miniskirt, pretending to be waiting for someone, somewhere in Archway. De Bernières is a skilful writer, poetic but unforced, who can soothe you like a masseur, telling well-oiled stories of past excitements, and then just when you are drifting off, dexterously tweak a pressure point.
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