Review
If you expect intense
action in your reading matter then it would
be best if you moved swiftly past
It's
All Right Now!
However, if
you've enjoyed the subtle pleasures of books
such as William Boyd's
Any Human Heart
or John Lanchester's
Mr Phillips,
then you should stop and take a close look
at
It's All Right Now.
Tom Ripple is an emotionally stunted,
intellectually incurious man who is an
insignificant cog in a not particularly
important company; he lives in a nondescript
part of North London and for all the world
looks like the last person one would wish to
spend 30 years and 670 pages with.
However, as Tom observes his life from...
Beyond the Book
This first
novel by 72-year-old retired
civil servant Charles Chadwick
caused quite a ripple
pre-publication as much for the
age of the author as for the
book itself.
It's All
Right Now is Chadwick's
fifth novel but his first to be
published (he received nothing
but rejection slips for the
others). When Chadwick
received the news that his novel
had received advances worth
several hundred thousand dollars
he said "I am utterly astonished
- The phrase 'beyond my wildest
dreams' has now taken on meaning
for me."...
