A review by lj_crook
A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor

3.0

This is a wonderfully well observed book but it suffers from a chronic case of nothinghappensitis. I found Taylor's prose engagingly light but with moments of real poetry, and some of the characters within the novel were wonderful portraits. However, I never found myself particularly caring about what happened because it was obvious that there would be no great ructions to explore. Perhaps that's a failing on my part - the intensity of small dramas is certainly a worthy subject - but nevertheless I can't recommend A View of the Harbour quite as highly as many of the other books I've read this year.