The Rapture Liz JensenThis "End of Days" tale is more fiction with science in it than classic science fiction. The focus is on the characters and the different ways in which they are broken and on the nature and impact of belief on how we see ourselves and others.Nevertheless, there is still a go...
The Rapture is thrilling, intelligent and very bleak. The characters seem realistic and the narrator's voice is convincing throughout. I felt compelled to read on and although it was possible to anticipate the ending, the strength of the prose meant that it didn't disappoint. The ending is a litt...
The opening line draws you in on the instant' I'm not most kids. I'm Louis Drax. Stuff happens to me that shouldn't happen, like going on a picnic where you drown 'Such an opening could, I suppose, head off in a number of different directions. Downwards to cliched cleverness, upwards to bizarre s...
A thrillingly imagined rollercoaster of a novel bursting with sex, time travel, and true love.Charlotte Schleswig, the delightful narrator of Liz Jensen's latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she ...
A long time ago, my sister-in-law, Jenny, lent me Ark Baby, when I ran out of books while I was visiting my brother and her in Pittsburgh. “It’s funny,” she said.Parts of Ark Baby certainly are funny, and it is meant to be both a comic novel and a social commentary. Liz Jensen begins with the pre...
On the artificial island of Atlantica, politics has been replaced by consumerism, with the Libertycare computer running every aspect of life on the island. One of Atlantica's main sources of prosperity is its willingness to receive the world's garbage, no matter how toxic, and store it in the por...
Here is the perfect novel for everyone who ever felt manipulated and lied to in a relationship, for everyone who ever thought they were sane and it was the doctors and psychiatrists who should be locked up, for everyone who ever wished for the perfect, low-maintenance baby, and for everyone who e...
I wake at 6.18. The net’s working. Forecast: partly cloudy skies, a low front shifting westward, slight chance of rain. High of sixteen, dropping to twelve at night. The ophthalmologist has sent me her analysis of the autopsy report: I make a mental note of the information it contains. I’d antici...