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07/12/2004: "G"

Digging to Australia, by Lesley Glaister. A very interesting novel, by an author previously unknown to me. The odd details of the story are integrated into the context so that they remain plausible; the writing is clear and controlled, the plotting coherent. The references to Alice in Wonderland and Portrait of the Artist are probably significant, but it's been too long since I've read either of those to catch them; but this probably means the novel is not overburdened by them. Dark and disturbing, and altogether a good find.