Reviewed by Patrick WestWILLIAM HEINEMANN, 348pp, £14.99Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Tel 01420 592974
Set to the background of a north London increasingly settled by bankers and hipsters, a south of France infested by British expats, and a soulless Dubai where philistine traders abound, Completion tells the history of a disjointed, dysfunctional family bidding goodbye to a home steeped in bitter-sweet memories.The father and mother, Jerry and Pen Manville, once the envy of their peers, are now divorced: he had been a successful advertising agent, she the creator of a string of popular children’s books with the series title “The House on the Hill”, based on the family home and featuring versio
27 March 2014, The Tablet
Completion
This old house
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