![]() ![]() ![]() One character cannot quite square his artistic soul with his day to day grind the other pursues art but with the welcome safety net of someone else’s money. A chance meeting on New Year’s revolves rapidly into a relationship.īoth central characters make sacrifices which seem reasonable and relatable, but which ultimately undo them. Frank, an artist at heart, has founded an advertising company and oversees it, earning money that drips from pages depicting unreasonably sized apartments and last-minute vacations to dream destinations. Cleo is young, carefree a British artist living in New York on borrowed time with an impending visa expiration. Like any great modern novel, the protagonists are fully formed to the extent that you slightly hate them both at times – though it stops short of making them truly unlikeable. It is through the stories of others that we expand our human knowledge and empathy, that we travel to distant times and places, that we find comfort in not being alone in the world.Ĭoco Mellors’ debut offering, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, zooms in on the relationship between two individuals – and I mean, it zooms. Luckily, teaching English in a secondary school reminded me that fiction is truly marvellous. This was very nearly killed off during a four year undergraduate degree in English, after which I did not read a novel for nearly two years. ![]() But the other major passion in my life is fiction. I am taking a risk, because I’ve only ever written about education. ![]()
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