A review by littlesophie
Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

5.0

Burn's debut novel is an unflinching look at the creepy, dark undertow of fame and the flipside to supposedly innocent and wonderful post-war Britain. After being disappointed with Graham Swift's Here We Are earlier this year, which is set in the same world of 50s show buisness and seaside town entertainments, Burn's is a much braver and more visionary novel. Deeply disturbing but utterly convincing, Alma Cogan is a freely styled and wildly imaginative masterpiece.