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It's a short story - I read it in little over an hour and then went back to reread sections I'd particularly enjoyed. Laura Solomon has a real talent for characterisation in just a few words. I ''wanted'' Laura to succeed, to have a good life the second time around, but the character who really caught my attention was the devil, with his casual attempt to seduce Marsha and his utter ''devilishness''. There's remarkably little description, but I had a very clear picture of him in my mind.
The plot's neat too: there's a moral in there but it's not delivered with a heavy hand. It's one of those stories which you mull over and think about long after you've finished reading. Given a chance at living your life again but without that which had constricted the first one, would ''you'' give information to the devil? But then we do this sort of thing every day, when we provide information about ourselves and others to faceless beings on the internet. It This might be a short story, but there's a great deal of food for thought packed between the covers. Whilst I didn't 'enjoy' the story I really appreciated the way that so few words could push my mind into corners long unvisited and I'd like to thank the author for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
Solomon has written another story about a character facing a dreadful medical condition. Our reviewer really appreciated [[An Imitation of Life by Laura Solomon|An Imitation of Life]].
