Ignorance by Michèle Roberts and The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer review

World War II France is the focus of these two new novels.

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16th June, 2012

Review

It’s a foolish reviewer who dares predict who will win this year’s Man Booker Prize, but Michèle Roberts’s 13th novel, Ignorance, is so impressive I am going to do just that and say she is the one. Previously Booker shortlisted for Daughters of the House, Roberts is a writer possessed not just of a poet’s gifts (she has published three collections of poetry) but also of the ability to create character, place and time in such vivid, sensuous detail the reader is beguiled into believing she is a witness to the events described. Jeanne and Marie-Angèle are childhood ...

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