Book 40 of 2009
40. Show Me the Sky by Nicholas Hogg
You have to lose yourself before you can go home. That seems to be the theme. It's a multi-threaded novel where (nearly) everyone finds their way home in the end. Hogg's writing style is simple and unpretentious, though occasionally insipid, and the story alternates uneasily between historical drama and potboiler thriller. It's too self-consciously literary for my taste, but nicely paced and perfectly readable.
You have to lose yourself before you can go home. That seems to be the theme. It's a multi-threaded novel where (nearly) everyone finds their way home in the end. Hogg's writing style is simple and unpretentious, though occasionally insipid, and the story alternates uneasily between historical drama and potboiler thriller. It's too self-consciously literary for my taste, but nicely paced and perfectly readable.