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|author=Louise Dean
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|borrow=Yes
|pages=304
|publisher=Scribner
|date=January 2005
|isbn=0743240006
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Recently I've found quite a few books where the book itself was far better than the cover would have led me to believe. I've got the reverse problem with "Becoming Strangers". Julie Myerson, the Guardian writer is quoted on the cover:
There is no violence in the book but there are graphic sex scenes. After reading the book I was left with a strange feeling - that it would make an excellent book for a reading group to discuss, because of all the issues that it covers, but that it wasn't such a good book to read in isolation. I can't recollect another book where I've had the same thought.
If you like this type of book then you might enjoy Maggie O'Farrell's [[After You'd Gone]]. It's also a debut novel but the plotting is better and there's a surer touch with characterisation. You might also enjoy [[Bloodmining by Laura Wilkinson]].
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|name=maidmarion7
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|comment= Couldn't disagree more with above review.For apt enthusiatic reviews and increduality that this is a first novel see THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT,and TIME OUT LONDON.Note prizes awarded to a novel about long marriages tested in a Carribean cruise of heart- breaking consequence and redemption of a bittersweet kind. I wept.
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