“Ms. Barker's novel is LONG - 800 pages or so - but it flies by. A funny, sometimes disturbing, a few times scary, look at a few lives in Ashford, England, and what happens when history, language, and a potentially evil jester named John Scogin refuse to be contained by modern life and burst into the present at opportune and inopportune moments. The novel places many questions before the reader and Ms. Barker doesn't provide easy answers or, scratch that, answers at all. I found this a bit unsatisfying in an otherwise great read.”
Vanessa B wrote this review Thursday, May 15 2008.
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