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Barb takes care of the web orders here at Boffins, and is your contact for book club enquiries. She spends all her spare time curled up on the couch reading and for the last several years has reviewed books on the Afternoon Program on ABC radio Perth.
This is easily one of the best novels I’ve read this year. Although fiction, it is based on George Orwell’s life, or at least the last third of it, which of course includes the period when he wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four. Although I've read those books, albeit years ago, I don't really know anything about Orwell himself so I’ve no idea where the line is between fact and fiction in this novel, and that somehow made its reading even more enjoyable, given Orwell himself was so concerned with truth telling. The style is clean, clear and punchy, a bit like Orwell’s really. His struggle to survive both literally and as a writer is fascinating. As the events around him provide the material and inspiration for his writing, reading this novel feels like witnessing the creation of two great masterpieces.
