Having never read Trapido before, I feel I've uncovered a new seam of enjoyment. It focuses on a bookish but stylish eighteen-year-old escaping a stifling home life, and the influence on her of the bohemian, self-opinionated Goldmans. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, it's a kind of Brideshead Revisited meets I Capture the Castle, but more modern and raunchy. The ending demands a sequel - and apparently there is one, which I hope won't disappoint.
(Annie Noble - bwl 37 December 2006 ) |
