Autumn Book Reviews
Mar 01, 2018
4 minutes
by Mark Laurie.
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
by William Boyd
Published by Penguin Viking ISBN 9780241295878 $32.99
This collection, containing a novella and several loosely-linked short stories, explores choice and chance in contemporary lives, largely amongst those on the fringes of the modern entertainment industry. Bethany Mellmoth careens between relationships, homes and career prospects like a pinball. She trusts in hope and encounters with others, a less raucous Bridget Jones. Alec Dunbar, a B-grade Bond, draws from his vast array of film roles in which his character has been killed off early, to survive villainous intentions in a thriller set in Scotland. Ludo Abernathy’s
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