A review by simonalvey
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton

3.0

This is an interesting concept for a novel, a senior US army officer calls in on a former Greenham Common protester that he had an affair with 16 years earlier and then the story of the affair and their lives paths afterwards are told. However Ben Elton is not really a good enough novelist to make it work, his writing is clunky, his attempts at gender politics are simplistic. However he spins a good yarn that you find yourself wanting to keep on reading, and you can get through it in double quick time. It is the best of Elton's novels but he has written some real stinkers.