The Candy House
JENNIFER EGAN
(CORSAIR, 352 PP, £20)
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Jennifer Egan's The Candy House takes us back to A Visit from the Goon Squad, her thrilling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 2010. Here are many of the same vivid characters, reprising their lives as if they’d just been waiting for Egan’s permission to resurface. They include Sasha the shoplifter, now a recycled-plastics artist in the desert, music mogul Lou Kline and his ex-wife Mindy, now an anthropologist, and tech giant Bix Bouton, around whose inventions this dazzling – and often very funny – new novel revolves.