“all the lonely people”
The story of a lonely woman in her thirties who discovers the son she gave up for adoption at sixteen, only for him to die four months later from aggressive ms.
Six years later Vienna police contact her and she discovers the father of her child is a dentist with ocd living there. The book ends with them a couple, her pregnant and possibly with radiation sickness.
Very slight, very readable. It’s a pity that Coupland can’t ever get under the surface of things as he’s got a really enjoyable writing style.
Rating: B