A review by summeryork
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss

1.0

I found the middle class privileged neurotic narration of this book mind bogglingly frustrating. Everything about them annoyed me - from moaning incessantly about the NHS, to forgiving minor characters their failings because awww poor them they don't know any better being uneducated and working for minimum wage - I hated the whole family. I did enjoy the grandfathers story but it was so small and unfinished that it couldn't redeem this book past it's one star rating. All I wanted was for one of them to die, after drudging through the whole book I didn't mind which one of them bit the dust (it could have ended with all of them dying in a 'tragic' plane crash on their way to the spur of the minute holiday they decided to take because y'know... they can afford it. Adam can save all the bitching about how his wife paid for it all and wank about it later, after emptying the washing machine and doing the dishes, eating a fresh croissant from the good bakery and puréeing some organic veg, ugh) I just wanted a death, just one lousy death to cheer me up at the end of a dull nagging annoying book that epitomises white privilege, and I didn't even get that. Boo!