A monster stalks London. It’s 1939, and the Blitz is raining bombs and terror down on central London. But the monster is worse, more dangerous, and less comprehensible. The characters in Francis Spufford’s novel Nonesuch have to deal with this combination of horrors. There’s a very good monster, and believable innocents caught up in a world they don’t really understand. The main character, a woman who was working in a broker’s office, takes charge of the struggle, and a dramatic struggle it is!
The book is pretty good with a combined war story and horror theme, but somewhere in the last 100 pages it takes a long-winded turn, with tons and tons of detail about bombs in London. At this point I had to force myself to keep reading. And when I finished, I felt a bit cheated because the ending… well, it’s not exactly an ending. It leaves the reader unsure, I think. (Maybe I just don’t get it.)
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