Witty love story
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A lovely mixture of wit, tragedy, an expose of the mind of the middle ranking civil servant, and throughout, two love stories bubbling to the surface despite their protagonists' attempts to ignore them. Very funny and very sad, often in the space of a page or two.
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Could not put this book down
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An excellent read which encompasses amongst other things suspense, philosophical debate and a love story. Although the plot is essentially about two people in a different era, the glimpses into the narrator's own personal life leave you wanting for more. This is an interesting insight into the workings of the Civil Service which highlights superbly how public money can be wasted.
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Paper-shuffling turns into psychological tease
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By turns touching and very funny, A Landing on the Sun charts a colourless civil servant's gradual unravellings of the mystery of a nameless committee headed by a late, suicidal colleague. Frayn doles out the information in calculated driblets, and the first few chapters do require patience, but - as with Headlong - the story then snares all your interest. I first read this during an extremely long and tedious train journey, but by the end would have willingly postponed arrival to reach the novel's conclusion more quickly..
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