All That Follows – Jim Crace

All That Follows is very different novel to what people expect from Jim Crace but he said he has reached the age he wants to takes chances.  It has a near-contemporary setting and addresses direct political concerns, in a character-based, plot-driven, realistic novel about love and courage.

Jim Crace blazes into new territory with a near-future exploration of politics, courage and love. Leonard Lessing is a jazzman taking a break. He’s almost fifty, addicted to the media, reliving old gigs, and finds his life is not so much in a rut as a well-oiled groove. He and his wife Francine are struggling to cope with the absence of Francine’s daughter, who at twenty has upped and left and immaculately covered her tracks. Otherwise their life in a regulated surburb is unremarkable – until a few miles away hostages are seized and the ringleader of the kidnappers turns out to be a man from Leonard’s past…Set in the south of England, 2024, and Austin, Texas, 1997, and populated by a quartet of strong and fiery women, this hypnotic novel wonders whether a life full of sound and fury signifies more than a life lived quietly, and asks what it really means to be courageous.

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Links and Further Reading

• Review The Australian
• Interview with Jim Crace from Granta magazine on Vimeo
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