Life lines

It is not surprising to see the back cover Comment novelist Isabel Allende because like his book "The House of the Spirits", the novel of the British Graham Joyce mixes the small and the great history but also revealed by little touches of fantasy elements in a daily mundane altogether. Because ultimately this novel tells nothing more than the daily life of an extraordinary family.

The family ties still hold a dominant share in the work of Graham Joyce but here more than ever we take part in the life of each member held by an iron hand by engaging and perceptive matriarch. We smile, we moved, we anguish and it is with great affection for each that closes the book.