South of the River is billed as Blake Morrison's great state-of-the-nation novel. In other words, one of those worthy, wordy and ditch-water dull fat books about everything and nothing. Thankfully, this is not one of those.
Read South of the River for a very good inter-weaving of interesting stories, creating a compelling whole.
We also have a review of [[The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison]].
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|comment= Oh, I rejected reading this because I thought it would be overblown, despite fancying the premise. I'm in hearty concurrence with there rarely being a necessity for 520 pages. Darnit.