Your Blue-Eyed Boy - Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore is an author who has won the Orange prize for best novel by a female writer, so when I saw her follow up book, Your Blue-Eyed Boy offered in hardback for £2, I snapped it up. I am always looking for new authors to read and so this was a great chance to experiment a bit. So what was the result? Well lets start with the type of book this is, it is not a fast paced thriller, it is more of a slow paced indulgent novel. By that I mean that Dunmore lingers over her use of language, painting vivid pictures of her characters and the scenarios they find themselves in. By its nature this type of book is slow to read, as to appreciate the beautiful use of ...  Read the complete review