I liked this book because it was really exciting and suspenseful. For example, they needed a book to travel through time but then they couldn't find it so they had to use Uncle Joe's Time Warp Watch instead (51). This was suspenseful because it didn't really work right and they bounced all around through time. När han tänker på Tora och Frances ser han dem som skyddade av ett finmaskigt nät som dämpar varje fall. Vanligtvis syns inte trådarna, men ibland skimrar de till i form av problem och misstag som ändå aldrig kommer att komma dem inpå huden. Det har alltid provocerat honom. Samtidigt som han vill att de ska förbli tryggt omslutna av ett lager av frihetskapital.” i am being very mean because i had a glass of wine and, as i always do after one glass of wine, have discovered myself to be the smartest person in the world, but the truth is i enjoyed this immensely, and though it was not very close to the seeing-god feeling i get when i read sally rooney, it scratched the itch.

Overall through the medium of the Brighton based film we have an excellent snapshot of an historic year. This is a clever and extremely well written book as you would expect from an author of the calibre of William Boyd. There are rich descriptions which capture the tumultuous times, the sex, drugs, political upheaval and the huge seismic change both politically and socially. The brilliant characters are an excellent vehicle for reflecting this important year. I loved it and this is one book I’ll remember for a long time. Highly recommended. The story is set in the 1960's and features three main characters, an american actress named Anny, a film producer named Talbot and a novelist named Elfrida. All three are great characters and entertain throughout the novel while trying to deal with there personal issues. Anny Viklund is the lead in a new film being filmed in Brighton and although a star she is full of insecurities, dependant on prescription drugs. Film Producer Talbot Kidd is homosexual and is being deceived out of money by his business partner. And finally Elfrida Wing who is struggling to write her next big novel while dealing with her cheating husband and ever worsening drink problem. esta señora tiene que estar harta de que la llamen la sally rooney sueca, pero es que.... es un poco así. Over the years, mr. Boyd may not have changed his basic approach to fiction writing, but he has definitely gotten better at his game, striking a balance of sorts between revealing secret thoughts through character interaction and inserting his own editorial commentary.Anny Viklund, a film star who is having an affair with a young co-actor and has an ex-husband who turns up from America, on the run from bombing draft centres. From one of Britain's bestselling and best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?

He leído reseñas y acusaciones que banalizan la novela argumentando que la historia sólo tiene lugar y avanza porque son personajes que no se comunican. Que si se parasen a hablar y a expresar a los otros cómo se sienten, contar la historia que cuenta sería imposible. Pues por supuesto que sí. POR SUPUESTO QUE SÍ. ¿Y QUÉ? Ese es justo el punto de esta obra, que los personajes dicen mucho más por lo que callan que por las escuetas y poco honestas conversaciones que mantienen. Maybe it’s just my mood. I wasn’t crazy about the last book I read either. Maybe it’s just that this author is not for me . Maybe I’m missing something. There certainly are some heavy things here in the secrets that the characters keep - alcoholism, drug addiction, adultery, the difficulties of a closeted gay man in the 60’s . As serious as these things are, as I moved from chapter to chapter, I felt as if I was watching a soap opera and the depth of the story was lost for me. While this takes place in England, I couldn’t help but think of what was going on elsewhere in the world in 1968. There were a few mentions of the Vietnam War and one mention of Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert Kennedy. The trio of the title are three characters all linked to a greater or lesser through the British film industry in the 1960s. The narrative style is jaunty and captures a sense of what it might have been like on the set of a Carry On film - everyone putting on a hilarious performance in front of the camera, while mired in various troubles and issues in real life. So far, so good. The difficulty I had with the text, however, was that everyone is so relentlessly unlikeable and unpleasant. I have no problem reading about such characters in general - who wants a story where everyone is PollyAnna? But there just seemed too much of it here. Perhaps it is a reflection of trying to read in these troubles 2020 times, I’m not sure.

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Edward Docx, in The Guardian, said: "This is a book about the absurd business of film-making, the desperate business of writing a novel and the ludicrous business of acting – and it’s superbly wry and wise and funny and truthful on all three subjects. But, beneath that, it’s really a novel about the correspondences between the inner and the outer lives of human beings: a novel, in other words, about identity" but Docx feels that Boyd "could have taken more risks in this book. I wanted him to deploy his formal talents to scream something, howl something, to weigh in. What was missing was madness, rage, despair, something existentially incandescent – whatever Boyd’s version of that might be." [1]