![]() ![]() But then the fact is,” she suggests, “ our bodies don’t care about us at all.” ![]() Yes, on one level it is a hymn to this love-ship but it is also a harrowing account of the affects of child sexual abuse and “ how far a body will go to protect itself, at all costs. ![]() It’s a solar system of people, with planets, Willem (an actor), JB (a painter), and Malcolm (an architect), and their hugging friends who hover like moons as they all circle in ever-decreasing orbits around Jude (a lawyer), the sun-like centre where a career is as important as sex, where sex is fluid and non-defining, where who you think you are can be a million miles away from who others think you are, and where desire is unhinged from the brain and is a simple bodily necessity. This is a novel about friendship no, it’s more than that, it’s about love-ship. A Little Life was short-listed for the 2015 Man-Booker Prize ![]()
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