Mister Pip
Giving an 'A+' doesn't come easy for the people at Complete Reviews. The last book that they gave a 'rating' of A+ was 1292 books ago. That was until they reviewed Lloyd Jones's "Mister Pip".
Mister Pip may appear, at first sight, to be yet another book about the redemptive power of literature and imagination, cleverly drawing parallels between an old classic and contemporary life, but it's far more than that. And, even just taken at its fundamental level as a story, it is, simply, wondrous.
The reason the novel works particularly well lies in the tone
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