![]() ![]() Ray will inadvertently be sucked into that narrative, but first he must prove himself unreliable in other ways. It’s 2011, when the capital plays host to an outbreak of riots and looting. They’re all from out of town but have osmotically adopted London foibles such as kissing both cheeks: “if, at first, there’d been a little sarcasm in it – we were making fun of theatre people – that was gone now and we were just those people”. “We were not the kind of friendship group who valued muscles,” confides Ray, Dunthorne's narrator. ![]() The Adulterants relocates to a patch of north-east London where a coterie of thirtysomethings are trying to see their way onto the property ladder. The first two novels were set in or around Swansea, where Dunthorne grew up. There has been quite a wait for The Adulterants, a contemporary tour of several of the deadly sins, but it's been worth it. It was a happy setting for an author intrigued by the perpetual weirdness of human behaviour. ![]()
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