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We know about his sense of loss after he let his daughter go to Australia without enough of a struggle, not that he puts it so frankly. Lenny's daughter Sally had a relationship with Vince Dodds, and became pregnant, before marrying a jailbird. On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 78 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

But I found the funereal tone and speed of the book rather oppressive, particularly in the second half. There was some serious controversy (in the Literary pages of the broadsheets, at least) following this year’s Prize, as Swift’s winner was accused of plagiarising the premise and structure of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.Swift's stunning new novel (after Light of Day) begins with deceptive slowness, detailing the lives of Jack and Ellie, the English husband-and-wife proprietors of a trailer park on the Isle of Wight. What is the relationship between what the characters do for a living and the alternative careers they wished for, but did not take up? Some of what we learn comes from their internal monologues, but at least as much is revealed by their interactions during the trip, what the other characters think about them, or what is said in remembered conversations.

At best it will be a celebration of life and at least, when times get hard, it will be a glow in the dark.Homage", incidentally, being just the word Swift used in an interview with Salon magazine nearly a full year before before Frow started complaining – and even before Swift won the Booker.