How to Write a Another Novel: OH, YES

Saturday, 27 June 2009

OH, YES

70 pages to go in this. It's very, very good. Masterful.

If you want to know about voice, about creating an utterly compelling, though unreliable, narrator, read it.

Full review to follow...

2 comments:

Anne Brooke said...: Yes, it's marvellous - the best he's ever done. Though, to be honest and from distant memory, I don't think the end is as good as it could be?...

Axxx; 28 June 2009 09:58
TOM J VOWLER said...: I'll let you know, Anne - still 30 pages to go. Birdsong is one of my favourite novels, yet this is so disparate I can't really compare them.; 28 June 2009 10:16

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