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A review by pshipper
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
4.0
Great read. I like an author who can successfully interest me in the lives and fates of characters that are not sympathetic; who creates ambiguity that still manages to engage. There are fascinating people and places in this book. I didn't like all of them and I didn't understand all of their motivations, but I wanted to follow them through the arc of the book.
Hollinghurst also deftly portrays important plot points in a way that people in that time or at their age in life might have understood them. The historical parts of this work felt genuine, regardless of how much of the central characters' roles in history were fictional.
Hollinghurst also deftly portrays important plot points in a way that people in that time or at their age in life might have understood them. The historical parts of this work felt genuine, regardless of how much of the central characters' roles in history were fictional.