Sometimes you simply have to believe the hype. When publisher White Rabbit described Unfinished Business, cultural commentator Michael Bracewell's first novel for 21 years, as "quietly devastating", they picked the perfect epithet.
Novelist Anthony Quinn's review for the Guardian is also spot on: "I suspect this Temps Perdu of a melancholy journeyman will reverberate long after the book is closed."
Here, in my own words for Buzz, is a short appraisal of a novel that struck a chord/nerve with a reviewer who is themselves increasingly plagued by "terminal nostalgia".
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