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18th July 2015

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The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood review – an absorbing insight into human creativity…

Literary CriticismBy Dave18th July 2015Leave a comment

For The Guardian: Note to all readers: keep going. I spent 137 pages of The Ecliptic thinking it was a very good but misconceived novel in which a talented male author had taken an artistically self-sabotaging decision to make his first-person protagonist – Elspeth Conroy, a Glaswegian painter – a woman with an oddly oblique antiquarian voice…

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