5/2/2023 0 Comments A long way down book summary![]() ![]() JJ is a slightly straining-to-be-American American, and Maureen is a heart-rending misfit with only a chronically disabled son for company. To Jess, a decidedly troubled Labour minister's daughter, life is like totally shit but some stuff is really really lush, right. As a breakfast TV star sacked in the wake of a sex scandal and now resident in the tabloids, Martin's cocky articulacy works best in contrast with the Young Person logorrhoea of Jess. This is a chapterless three-acter in which four protagonists tell their tales in their own distinctive styles. Their half-hearted group exploits carry them through the rest of the novel. ![]() Our foursome - a disgraced former TV presenter, a downtrodden middle-aged mum, a foul-mouthed teen rebel and a solipsistic muso - then marry their destinies, squabble, and jet off on holiday together. ![]() ![]() After a bit of wire-cutting and pavement-gazing, the quartet exchange some end-of-the-line dialogue, then descend as one via the stairs with barely a whimper to search for a teenager's former boyfriend at a party. They're about to fling themselves to their deaths, but they encounter each other instead and form a comically ill-matched alliance. Four characters are placed upon a tower block roof on New Year's Eve. ![]()
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