A review by failedluddite
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Taylor

4.0

Sometimes you want to read a straightforward, down-to-earth, unpretentious novel, and this is such a book. Carefully drawn portraits of unremarkable people in an unremarkable seaside town form the backbone of an entirely remarkable novel. The writing is quiet and subdued, but gradually draws the reader into its world. The theme of art and artistry is woven through the book, as well as the pervading beauty of loneliness. Although this book has very little in common with [b:The Waves|863768|The Waves|Virginia Woolf|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347773711s/863768.jpg|6057263], it shares Woolf's fascination with the colour of light, and the passing of time, and seems at times to be a distinctly romantic companion to that modernist masterpiece.