I just finished writing about The Post-Birthday World and in that blurb, I said that there was a theme of questions and “What If’s” and no clear answers.
The theme continues with Mad Dash - but in a vastly different voice and with a very different, but satisfying, conclusion.
Two decades of marriage and one child later, Dash Bateman & her husband Andrew are finding that the opposites that once attracted them to each other are now the very same things that are keeping them apart. Dash finds Andrew dull and tedious; Andrew finds Dash impetuous and rash.
Rotating perspectives between the couple allows us to see how two people can interpret the same incident.
While the ending might be just a little too perfect, the story is fun and the read a quick one.
her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid. Until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton. The decision to give in to temptation will have consequences for her career, her relationships with family and friends, and perhaps most importantly the texture of her daily life.”
The characters he meets in outer space are the shards of human weakness that make up our delusions — the conceited man who wants to be admired, the tippler who drinks to forget that he drinks, the businessman who thinks he owns the stars, the lamplighter who must light and extinguish his lamp every minute because his planet revolves so quickly.
