Coming of age novel struggles to find an authentic voice
Not quite as funny as its blurb claims, there are sparks of real wit
Fiction; What a Way to Go; By Julia Forster; Atlantic Books, €22.60
It’s March 1988, and Harper Richardson is twelve and a half years old. She lives in a small town in the English midlands with her mum, though she spends every second weekend with her dad in what used to be the family home before her parents divorced, a small damp cottage in a nearby village.
Harper is a relatively optimistic girl, ...
