In reply to Removed UserDeleted bagger:
> A lot of people lead shallow and vacuous lives driven by the need for drugs, money and status. In that respect it was worryingly representative of the contemporary UK.
More like what a lot metropolitan media types imagine living in the countryside must be like. Well, I can tell you that we don't take parish council elections as half as seriously as this.
Haven't read the book but yes, it did seem like a lot of shallow stereotypes with wholly unconvincing motivation. And how the hell do you get tangled up in the wiring from a flatscreen television thrown in the river only days earlier sealed in its original packing?
Older readers may remember the dramatisation of Fay Weldon's Heart of the Country. A lot of the same rural angst, done much better.
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