Robert Newman - The Fountain at the Centre of the World

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Date: 16 February 2012 14:10:29

Left wing books which focus on environmental pollution; the complex causes of and responses to poverty; the spin used by the corporate and capitalist world organisations; asylum seekers in Britain and the Battle for Seattle should not make good novels. They are by nature too preachy and cringeworthy. Yet and here comes the but, this was not a bad read.

Now I know I hold political sympathies which lend themselves to this type of subject matter but beneath the teaching lies quite a good story. The non-political plot revolves around seperated relatives seeking to find each other. The will they?/ wont they? and if they do what will result? drama drags you through the parts which are more textbook than novel.

Not the best book I've read recently, but certainly not one which I regret letting take up a few hours of my life I'll never get back. Robert Newman - The Fountain at the Centre of the World is then something you may or maynot want to follow up.