![]() The Mississippi-raised writer's first novel since The Secret History, a decade ago, has turned into a sort of second coming. Before long, an equally vast army will also recognise the outline of Donna Tartt's The Little Friend. But the tale-spinner will repent, and the curtain drop on a self-dramatising childhood.Īs its legion of admirers knows, so runs the main action of Ian McEwan's Atonement. ![]() Her book-bred fancies will push a marginal young man into the glare of shame and ruin. The effectively fatherless child of an élite family, she lives in a sleepy, class-bound backwater. Moulded by the yarns of daring and detection she has read, this story will transform her world over a single, clammy summer. On the brink of adolescence, and all its hormonal storms, a clever but wildly imaginative girl makes up a story from fragments of hearsay and fantasy. ![]()
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