![]() ![]() Cheek's deft way with characters and consequence makes for a heady cocktail. ![]() The atmosphere of this torrid Fifties psychodrama lingers long after the final page.Southern honeymooners Henry and Effie are sucked into a Gatsby-esque bacchanal that unleashes powerful, devastating desires. With shades of F Scott Fitzgerald, Revolutionary Road and even Mad Men, this is one of those books that transport you to a different era and leaves you mesmerised by bad behaviour and human failings. Brilliantly unsettling - one of those books that stays with you. ![]() Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. ![]()
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