Winter Garden

by Beryl Bainbridge | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0349116091 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingPlum-crazywing of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 2/5/2022
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Journal Entry 1 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, February 5, 2022
Middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road lawyer Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womanizer. So when he tells his wife he’s going on a fishing holiday, she takes his word for it. But instead of leaving London for Scotland, he departs from Heathrow to Moscow. Douglas is tagging along with his mistress, a sculptor named Nina St. Clair, on a tour of Russia arranged by the Soviet Artists’ Union. Accompanying them on the trip are two other artists: the impudent Bernard Douglas and the irritable Enid Dwyer.

Once in Moscow, Ashburner starts to wish he really had gone fishing. He promptly loses his luggage, the food is terrible, the art is horrific, and their tour guide is downright militant. But when Nina slips out to a last-minute lunch appointment and never returns, things go from bad to disastrous. Motives are unclear. Identities are mistaken. And as the group travels from the capital to Lenigrad to Tblisi, confusion, contradictions, and even hallucinations abound.

Journal Entry 2 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, May 2, 2022
I've nothing much to say about this book as for the bulk of it I wasn't really sure what was going on!

Initially I thought I was going to enjoy the style of humour but at times things were almost farcical - certainly rather absurd. I felt there was some subtext going on that I just couldn't grasp, things are hinted at but I'm not good at reading between the lines so maybe that's why this book didn't work for me.

Would love to hear others opinions of it.

Journal Entry 3 by wingPlum-crazywing at Mixed Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (10/4/2022 UTC) at Mixed Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 4 by wingyorkshire-lasswing at Maidstone, Kent United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Taken out of the Mixed Fiction Bookbox, as my TBR is massive it may take me a while to get to.

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