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So, Chesil Beach ... what dyou think?

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Bink · 18/04/2007 20:22

I think it's quite good.
I think it (rather gently) breaks new ground, but at same time isn't trying to be anything more than a Novella (haven't seen that term in a while).

I also like that it seems to me a sort of oblique "answer" - or re-thinking - of The French Lieutenant's Woman. I wonder if it is, on purpose, at all? As it makes a nicely thoughtful riposte to the posturingy bits of John Fowles.

Separately: anyone seen any nice side-zipped narrow-legged linen trousers anywhere?

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JustineMumsnet · 17/09/2007 10:27

At one point I thought her Dad abused her - hence the frigid stuff but I decided not in the end... what did you think?

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JustineMumsnet · 18/09/2007 09:46

The reasons I thought it were threefold. First father wouldn't be physically affectionate to her in public, but was to her sister. Secondly, they did all those overnight boat trips together and third the frigid thing (even if not frigid she certainly could have used a bit of therapy I thought). In the end, though, I decided (perhaps mistakenly) that she would have been more sexually awakened had she been abused, so it was a red herring.

Agree Sophable that the argument was fantastically realistic - the mad escalation every time each was wounded.

Agree too Pennies that she was more interesting and I thought more sympathetic, though dh somewhat typically preferred him and thought she was crackers.

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