Review: After She Wrote Him
Gaby Meares
As I did not finish this book, I have not rated it, as that wouldn’t be fair at all.
I am not a huge fan of the recent meta-fiction landslide. It’s all very clever, but does it make for an enjoyable book to read? Sometimes it does, but often it doesn’t. By page 70 I was beginning to lose the plot, so to speak!
One character (real or fictional, I cannot remember) explains the story as ‘an exploration of an author’s relationship with her protagonist, an examination of the tenuous line between belief and reality, imagination and self, and what happens when that line is crossed’. It just left me confused.
I loved Gentill’s Woman in the Library, and the Rowland Sinclair series, so I am hoping this is just a one-off exploration of this style of writing.