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Unlucky in love: Caroline’s Bikini, by Kirsty Gunn, reviewed

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

‘The most interesting novels are a bit strange,’ Kirsty Gunn once told readers of the London Review of Books. ‘They reject the predictable progress of conventional plotlines in favour of something that feels more risky.’ It’s surprising then that Gunn’s latest novel-ish offering is about unrequited love — a middle-aged banker for his glamorous landlady — set in the moneyed comfort of London’s Richmond.

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