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A review by beq3
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
1.0
Awful putrid plot; overwrought metaphor laden prose; weird, middle aged, over-educated, cynical and sneery "infant" narrator.
I'm not at all sure why people say this is original. If he'd made any effort at all to engage with what the psyche of an infant in the womb might actually be like, that might have been interesting. However he just inserts himself into that voice, and so the narrator in the womb is just the author declaiming on events.
In short, the whole thing is horribly unpleasant. Do yourself a favour and avoid.
I'm not at all sure why people say this is original. If he'd made any effort at all to engage with what the psyche of an infant in the womb might actually be like, that might have been interesting. However he just inserts himself into that voice, and so the narrator in the womb is just the author declaiming on events.
In short, the whole thing is horribly unpleasant. Do yourself a favour and avoid.