Word: perowneã
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Even outside of the hospital, Saturday is a book intimately concerned with the mundane processes of the everyday. The squash game is reported almost point for point, as is Perowne??€™s cookery. Some of these passages contain stunning descriptions, but they are too self-involved, halting the flow of the book and dragging attention away from the at times intriguing melodrama of Perowne??€™s family and of the deranged Baxter...
Even these characters though, who provide a welcome relief from the monotony of many of these descriptions, are too flimsy to ever really come to life. Perowne??€™s wife and daughter are lifeless: the former appears too infrequently and unmemorably to spark interest, while the latter comes across as slightly demented in her cloying girlishness...
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