One of Us
Shrewd ... If One of Us is an entertaining family saga of privilege and comeuppance, it is also a consummate novel of suspense in which revelations detonate with lethal accuracy.
She has returned to the intimate family dynamics at which she excels, combined with a brilliantly propulsive, almost whodunnit-ish plot and an astute analysis of power ... One of Us is all the better for not giving up on its own darkness.
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One of Us is littered with posh people behaving badly, and normal people caught in the crossfire, in a futile search for justice. But where Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, with its sumptuous prose and meticulous attention to detail, felt so real that the emergence of a dancing Margaret Thatcher was utterly seamless, One of Us is a parody of contemporary British life, a 350-page episode of Dead Ringers.
