![]() ![]() It begins one summer in the near future as the nations of the UK go their separate ways, releasing the English to work out for the first time in centuries who they think they are. It is a curious piece of work altogether. ![]() Her prose is always elegant in a dishevelled way.īold as Love is tinged by Kipling too, as it delves into Englishness, but this time the effect she is aiming for is more like Puck of Pook's Hill on class-A drugs. Her magnum opus so far, the White Queen trilogy, was a rich, sad, allusive story, which described an alien-occupied Earth using the same kind of palette Kipling used for India. She is one of Britain's most brilliant sci-fi writers, and one of the few authors of SF worldwide to understand the scale of opportunity the genre offers for the imaginative reconfiguration of our categories of familiarity and strangeness, thought and feeling, gender and individuality. Gwyneth Jones has written a novel in which a festival swallows up the whole country. ![]()
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