De Bernières veers away from sentimentality and into tragedy
FICTION: So Much Life Left Over, By Louis de Bernières , Harvill Secker/Vintage, €16.10
So Much Life Left Over is the ninth novel from the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and, more recently, The Dust That Falls From Dreams, to which it is a sequel. It follows Rosie McCosh and her husband, Captain Daniel Pitt, as they make a home in British Ceylon (Sri Lanka, today). The story is told as narrative montage ...