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Well,' I said. `I've always fancied seeing the lakes, so I thought I'd have a couple of weeks here first.' World News Network: Book Review: Three Novels by Magnus Mills, Published: 20 September 2009, Uploaded: 19 June 2011.

That's quite expensive really, isn't it?' he remarked. `Just for you, your tent and your motorbike.' daffiness. Not until the end are readers aware of just what has happened, and even then doubts linger. Lake District where the young man's imaginings are foreshortened by an endless series of small tasks assigned to him by the quietly sinister Tommy Parker. as central themes. When the narrator realizes with pride that ''I would be leaving my mark on the place,'' he has truly lost his way.

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Nobody did, so after a few minutes spent gazing at the water I continued my journey along the shore. Finally, I arrived at the north end of the lake, passed through a kissing gate, and walked across a deserted The entire book, in fact, is story. There is very little reflection. Mills somehow constructs a complex sequence of events that only his narrative voice can form into a plot. One way in which he achieves this is through the subtle weirdness of his narrator's world view.(...) You cannot ask more of a book than for it to make the familiar seem fresh, strange and scary. In a modest, sneaky way, Mills pulls this off better than any other writer at work today." - William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday doing -- her homework. For a while, each task will be the last; after finishing it, the narrator fully intends to mount his motorbike and head off on his great adventure.

The narrator winds up settling down there for the winter too, moving fron the temporary campground to a caravan of Parker's to a bothy. The strange townsfolk were all very intriguing yet half the time I was thinking 'you cheeky bugger!'. I feel like there was an odd theme of manipulation and advantage taking. And at the same time I wanted the lovely narrator of the story to stop letting people walk all over him! Yet I couldn't be annoyed at him because he was just too lovely. He fell silent for a moment, and when I looked up I saw he was gazing across at my tent. I'd been crouched down painting for quite a while now, so I stood upright to give my knees a rest.to the gate. The tea now being ready, I poured it into my tin mug and added milk. A few moments later, when I again looked towards the gateway, the schoolgirl had gone. Behind the hedge I could see the roof of a blue minibus

over the fells, most of them worn down by sheep, but some, apparently, attributable to the Romans. I'd read somewhere that you could walk over the fells for a year and never use the same pathway twice. Impressive enough, really bothered. It was actually quite nice to have something proper to do for a change, and so as soon as I'd dumped my groceries in the tent I set off up towards the house. occupied hardly any room at all. Nevertheless, it had taken me some time just to find a reasonable space for myself, where I wouldn't be encroached upon. The previous evening a mass exodus had taken place followingI was slightly surprised by this. There'd been quite a lot of people staying here when I first arrived, and I more or less assumed I'd gone unnoticed before today. After all, I was only one tent and a motorbike. Some of the families who'd been around during the week had set up huge encampments that extended across large areas of the field, with countless children running in all directions. By comparison I'd I'd been wondering when he would come to collect the rent. Several times in the past few days he'd gone round calling on everyone else, but for some reason he kept leaving me out. Now, on the sixth Mit bravourös gezügelter Rhetorik liefert Magnus Mills eine Farce auf die Easy-Rider-Romantik und alles, was an Freiheitsphantasien mit ihr einhergehen mag." - Ingeborg Harms, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

I'd inadvertently become his servant.'' But the discovery changes nothing. The narrator continues to perform the jobs that are doled out to him and the weeks continue to pass, with him no closer to India. passes, but there was a limit to how much enjoyment could be derived from this, especially with all the cars travelling nose to tail everywhere I went. Admittedly the roads would be quieter now that the majority of tourists I've got to say it was strangely readable despite the intentionally sparse dialogue and simple narrative style. The author had a clever way of putting little odd things in here and there that made me want to keep reading till the end- to find out if there were answers (and there were. At the very, very end. To a few questions anyway). While I was waiting for it to boil I sat in the grass and wondered how I was going to occupy myself today. That was the only trouble with this place: the scenery was great and everything, but there was nothing apparently unoccupied. The higher side of the yard was bounded by a dry wall, with a gateway through to another area of hard-standing where I could see a group of second-hand oil drums. This, presumably, was what Mr Parker

The language in this book is simple, as is the narrative style. There are no long words, imaginative metaphors or made up verbs here. Everything is pitched towards the average reader. Having said that, the style is original in that there are no clichés employed. This is a slightly different world from that which we normally occupy and although it is described in normal words, they combine to produce something quite unique and extraordinary. Magnus Mills has a style all of his own. There's no poetry here. The dialogue does not employ colloquial words to make us think of people in a particular region. The style is rather neutral; deadpan even. Very subtle and understated. Yes. the brightness I chose a shower cubicle and turned the tap on. Oddly enough I discovered it was already fully open, but there was no water coming out. I tried the tap in the next cubicle and it was the same. I was just out. He'd be in proper overalls as well, whereas I was clad only in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. My equipment consisted of no more than a brush and a tin of paint. Obviously an amateur. Someone who'd been roped

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