“Pleasant enough” – Our Lady of Everything by Susan Finlay

"What we have here is one of those novels - like, say, Sam Byer's Perfidious Albion or Ronan Hession's Leonard and Hungry Paul - that follows a small group of connected characters through a period of change. So there's David, who manages a Games Workshop but has a PhD on religion tucked under his belt (his former colleagues wonder about him, where he went, what he's doing). There's Meghana, a young woman who is tentatively exploring an academic exercise of her own as well as some kind of magikal experiment with David. There's Katarzyna, who is secretly bright but easily dismissed by the people about her because she wears 'chavvy' clothes - and there's her dad, Stanislaw, and Margaret, who is the grandmother of Kat's boyfriend Eoin who is serving overseas in Iraq and (if the reports are to be believed) getting himself in trouble. Finlay writes short chapters for the most part focusing on small, localised incidents that build up the larger picture..."

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