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Slam nick hornby review6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Funny Girl carries about it a particular nostalgic glow that, I think, comes from Hornby viewing the 60s through the misty eyes of his aged, present-day protagonists. ![]() There is something very different in writing characters who are able to appear, arthritic and curmudgeonly, in present-day Eastbourne in a chapter at the end of the novel to, for instance, the literary time travel we get in Wolf Hall or The Blue Flower. N ick Hornby’s seventh novel (and 13th book) opens in Blackpool in 1964, the year after Philip Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis – “Between the end of the ‘Chatterley’ ban/ And the Beatles’ first LP.” It is, I suppose, historical fiction, although it seems strange that we don’t have a formal term for a novel like this, which operates in a realm of the past that is both strikingly distant from the present moment and yet within living memory. ![]()
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