A Bowl Of Cherries
A Fiction book. I'd read good things about Shena McKay's writing and will try another of her...
In A Bowl of Cherries Shena Mackay tells the story of twin brothers whose lives are inexorably intertwined: Rex, a self-absorbed and successful writer, and Stanley, a minor poet who works as a dishwasher. Rex lives on the family estate being the older of the twins by one minute with his unhappy wife, Daphne, who writes children's books. Their overweight daughter, Daisy, lives nearby, and as a result of a guilty secret of her own, has married an overbearing, misogynist, and skinflint husband, Julian. Rex's illegitimate son, Seamus, 14, discovers Daisy quite by accident and their relationship blossoms despite the many flawed characters that surround them. He carries a family secret that proves to be devastating, but which ultimately releases his half-sister Daisy from her torments.
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- ISBN: 9780140231311 / 140231315
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A dreary tale of dreary people interspersed with sharp observation and the darkest of dark humour. A lot of slapping of faces, a lot of bad decisions, emotional torture, and low motives all set firmly in time and place. The angels are not very angelic and with one exception, the demons are not that bad - just very, very weak. The writing... I'd read good things about Shena McKay's writing and will try another of her books, but abandoned this one a quarter of the way in. The characters were overdrawn and unrealistic. The melodramatic plot strained the limits of my credulity too far for me to continue. I've loved Shena Mackay's other books for their black humour and sly dissection of suburban life. A Bowl of Cherries has both of these elements in spades but a rather disappointing plot, and some characters who are not as fully developed as the might be. It was never less than enjoyable, but not as wholly satisfying as novels like The...
