It's hard to sympathize with the two main characters, both born of humble means, but doing their very best to turn into insufferable bourgeois right-wingers who simply must send their children to the finest schools and inhabit a venerable manor house in the intolerably Barbour-clad Surrey countryside. This transatlantic marriage portrait--a kind of soft Shining--is also a weirdly effective portrayal of the 1980s Reaganite-Thatcherite lust for power and money and shiny baubles, and what a stain on the soul such things must eventually produce.
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It's hard to sympathize with the two main characters, both born of humble means, but doing their very best to turn into insufferable bourgeois right-wingers who simply must send their children to the finest schools and inhabit a venerable manor house in the intolerably Barbour-clad Surrey countryside. This transatlantic marriage portrait--a kind of soft Shining--is also a weirdly effective portrayal of the 1980s Reaganite-Thatcherite lust for power and money and shiny baubles, and what a stain on the soul such things must eventually produce.boulderman
Great study and almost felt like a mystery