September 01, 2002

Head Over Heels, Judith Cutler

Another midlife academic love crisis novel! I didn't expect one; the other Cutler books I've read were more murder-mysteries and much less character-driven.

This one is silly in its outline - aging rockstar attracted to headmistress his age - but sly in the mechanics; she's boondoggled into keeping a layabout but beautiful niece, the rockstar comes by in pursuit of the niece, niece is so surpassingly irritating and bad-mannered that the charms of the headmistress are shown off.

There's also a mystery plot, but even that has a lot more to do with Who should date Who than not. So wrote clew in Mystery.

And thus wrote others:
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