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At times brilliant, it's an ungainly novel that promises to be an IRA thriller at the beginning and has all the makings of a crackpot yarn; instead, it's a book much more interested in the quotidian details of the lives of those working in a hotel that was the site of a real-life bombing / assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher. That makes the book feel like a bit of a bait and switch; there's big payoff in a moving finale, but frankly lots of well-realized but dull detail that builds out the worlds of these characters without feeling like they fuel the engine of the novel. Certain setpieces crackle (any scene involving the high dive; a heart attack; a brutal high school breakup), but the hotel day-to-day is just banal compared to the machinations of the bombers. Affecting but lumpy.