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Years after her haunting disappearance from her suburban town, Stella Muchmore reappears and profoundly alters the life of BBC weatherman Giles Doughty, a middle-aged sexual gamesman
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About the Author
Tim Binding was born in Germany in 1947. He is the author of the novels A Perfect Execution and Island Madness, and of the non-fiction work On likely Moor, which are all available in Picador. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
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Binding's first novel accomplishes something quite impressive: an egotistical, rather detestable lead character undergoes a transformation and is redeemed. Giles Doughty remains unfortunately unlikable for the greater portion of the book (he announces he's a cad on page one, but his innocent love for his little niece is devised to make him sympathetic). Giles is a middle-aged weatherman for the BBC, and much of the story's metaphoric situations involve weather, in particular a terrific thunderstorm that severely injures Giles' sister, Carol, while she is searching for their long-lost neighbor, Stella. Giles feels obligated to take up the search, in the process reminiscing about his cherished adolescence when he and Stella would adventure out into the streets of their suburban town naked. The entire second section of the novel is Giles' remembrances of youth, complete with the appearance of "Giles as a boy" to advise the adult Giles; this device works only sporadically. Some humor arises from the flashback section, and Giles eventually gets what he deserves in a thorough thrashing from one of his lovers' suitors. If the reader can wade through Giles' pretensions and self-absorption, the ending is crackling good fun. Joe Collins
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 039303609X
- ISBN 13 9780393036091
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages374
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