That was a bit of a mindbender. 700 pages of psychological experimentation, not knowing what was real and what wasn’t - I stuck with it and really enjoyed it, although at times was totally lost, just like the main character. It's set mostly on a greek island after the waw and revolves around a young English teacher, who is looking for an escape from a failed relationship and takes a job on the island. there he meets a strange character who proceeds to draw him in to a web of fantasy and lies where no-one is what they seem. the scale of this illusion and the reasons for them haunt the main character as he struggles to distinguish between reality and the facade. It turns out that very little he though of as true was real and everyone he know has been part of the simulation in some way. a novel written by a young man alone on an island with too much time on his hands, but still great.
Fred had his first A level exam this week, in Maths. He's very taciturn, so it's difficult to understand how worried or concerned he feels, but he seems to be coping. Nest week we are off to look at Bristol and Bath university. . .
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