Mountolive

There's not much I can add to these review besides my own personal opinion. I enjoy Lawrence's work, language and ability to capture a moment. The first five chapters were artfully crafted but I found the core of the book to be laboured up until the point of the last three chapters, where it felt Lawrence had a renewed energy for the prose. The characters were all a bit dreamy and I understand that the setting probably overshadowed the diplomatic intrigue and characterisation, but for me there were but few gripping interactions between them. But having said that it is by no means a bad read or poor piece of work, but I had to find a compatible setting to compliment that of the book.