Has anyone else read this? I hadn't read anything by Crace before and only bought this because it was 99p in the Kindle sale, and it was on the Booker shortlist, so I thought it might be quite good. I hadn't read any reviews beforehand, so no preconceptions.
I thought it was brilliant, if bleak. Very beautifully written, it's a kind of moral fable about human cruelty. Interestingly I read some reviews afterwards and some of them really seemed to miss the point. But I would recommend it.