![]() ![]() ![]() Crazy-eyebrows is a literary agent, and may or may not represent a well-known, late literary agent, who had crazy eyebrows. The challenge with this kind of work is that the reader can’t help wondering, more than they possibly should, what is true, and what isn’t? And also, does that matter, given that we live, supposedly, in a post-truth world?Īllan goes to some lengths to disguise the true identities of the many minor characters by giving them hyphenated and often amusing names: sweet-but-sick-dollybird and rough-as-guts-forestry-man feature early in the novel, and later we meet doctor-take-your-bloody-time. Without them, the book could read as the memoir of a seriously dysfunctional relationship between two people who meet as teenagers in the ‘80s and remain married today. ![]() It also contains two very necessary words apart from the title and author’s name: A novel. ![]() It features a photograph of her husband James Allan as a young man, with yellow, pink and green graphics. The alluring, bright cover of Rosetta Allan’s third novel suggests the ‘80s in design and colour. ![]()
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