“There is a kink in the mastering” – The Only Story by Julian Barnes

"Which isn't to say that we didn't like The Only Story - we liked it a great deal, as you'd expect it's a book written by a writer at the top of his game. The issue we have is ever so slight, a question of mastering, as if a beautiful song had been ever so slightly over produced, or perhaps it is even more slight than that, as if there is a kink in the mastering. We know that the book says "how many seemingly incompatible emotions can thrive, side by side, in the same human heart" but there is something about the actions themselves, action speaking louder than words, that jars - ever so ever so slightly..."

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