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A novel to cure fear of missing out

Left of the Bang, Claire Lowden’s sparky fictional debut, is a comic exposé of the non-glamour of London life, where no one’s having fun

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

Left of the Bang Claire Lowdon

4th Estate, pp.338, £14.99, ISBN: 9780008102173

Who’d be young? Not 25-year-old Tamsin, if her behaviour is anything to go by. A classical pianist who’s never quite going to hit the heights, she devotes herself to playing for the residents of an old people’s home. She’s also acquired a boyfriend, Callum, a teacher several years her senior, for whom, when Christmas comes round, she buys an electric vegetable slicer that he’s had his eye on.

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