**edited 02/1/14 
 This book to me feels like a very British, dark-comedic version of The Sound and the Fury. I did not enjoy that Southern classic and so did not enjoy this; if you did, then I think this will probably be a good read. It has a large number of similarities with Faulkner's story: like a gentler The Sound and the Fury, it is the story of a dysfunctional family which slowly and agonizingly falls apart and rebuilds itself into something new. It is told from the perspectives of several of the key members of the family, although in this case, it is limited third person perspective rather than first person. At least one of the narrators is not mentally sound. And again, one might consider that most of the emphasis surrounds the marriage of the daughter of the family, although fortunately, incest is not one of the themes here. Unfortunately, though the tale is certainly told--often by people I considered to be idiots--with sound and fury leavened by humour, for me, it too signified nothing. 
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