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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is likely to be one of the strangest books you’ll read this year. It’s the winner of this year’s Women’s Prize – presumably because it’s written by a woman rather than about women, although there is one strong female character. There’s been lots of promotion of this novel over the last few months and it might be fair to say it’s marmite. You’ll either love the mystery, the mind-games and the maze-like quality of the story, and there’s a lot of that to love, or you’ll be irritated and bored. Without giving too much of the story away – no spoilers here – it’s about Piranesi, who lives in the House, a huge world-like labyrinth of halls, full of statues, crashing tides, birds – and one other living human being, appropriately called The Other. They’re in search of Truth – or at least a version of it, but while that is going on the reader realises this is a book about things maybe not being what they seem. The descriptions are lovely and the story intriguing and all the time it leaves you questioning your understanding of what’s going on. Whether you will enjoy it probably depend on whether you enjoy puzzles and the sort of magic which messes with your perception of things. It’s certainly interesting.
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