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Barb takes care of the web orders here at Boffins, and is your contact for book club enquiries. She spends all her spare time curled up on the couch reading and for the last several years has reviewed books on the Afternoon Program on ABC radio Perth.
This is my favourite novel from the 2017 Man Booker Prize shortlist, and is the first of a quartet from Smith. Hilarious, poignant and clever all at once, it is set in England (just) post the Brexit vote. Academic Elisabeth Demand visits her mother in the country and relates some of their difficult history. In a nearby hospice lies Daniel Gluck, an old neighbour with whom Elisabeth had been very close. Now well over 100 years old, Daniel is not expected to last long, but remembering their friendship, Elisabeth begins to visit and sit with him. Over the course of several weeks in Autumn, as the country reels from the recent vote to leave Europe, Daniel dreams, Elisabeth remembers, and she and her mother begin to connect.
