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hermlou
May 02, 2010hermlou rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Although it won the Booker Prize in 1987, this book is disappointing. Claudia is old and dying, and she remembers excerpts from her life. She was married, had a daughter Lisa who didn't understand her and wasn't understood by her. Claudia was an observer in the desert war and fell in love with a soldier in Egypt. Claudia is an outspoken beautiful women who never had a deep relationship with anyone except her lover, who was killed in the war. Lively describes the desert well, and she contrasts the war with the British living pampered lives in Cairo. I preferred her book "The Photograph".