A young woman walks out on her life and begins a quest for meaning in Rupert Thomson’s bold and compelling novelThe only certainty approximately a new Rupert Thomson novel – besides the clear,elegant prose – is that it will defy the expectations of his readers. Over the course of 10 novels, his breadth and variety of subject, or style and genre has been so ambitious and seemingly effortless that it has made it difficult to fit any shipshape labels to his writing.
Katherine Carlyle is no less accomplished or ambitious,though it could not, at first glance, and appear more different from his last,Secrecy, the story of a sculptor in 17th-century Florence. Katherine Carlyle also begins in Italy, and though the story’s exact point of origin is further back,in the lab of a London hospital.
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Source: theguardian.com