6/28/2023 0 Comments Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby![]() ![]() For Duncan, the toilet is a holy place for Annie – well, for Annie the place is, not unusually, a toilet. The aforementioned toilet is allegedly the place in which Tucker gave up the rock’n’roll life forever. Duncan and his longstanding girlfriend Annie are on a pilgrimage of sorts checking out the key geographical locations that figured in the life of long-lost reclusive cult singer songwriter Tucker Crowe. Juliet Naked begins in a toilet in Minneapolis. I’m going to try and hold off doing that with Nick Hornby’s latest Juliet, Naked. ![]() Even if it delivers on all fronts, even if it excels your wildest expectations, it’s still the latest jigsaw piece in a jigsaw puzzle of their other books. ![]() Arguably, a debut allows you to review a book almost as a standalone object the instant you pick up a book by an established author, an author you’ve presumably read other books by, there is a part of you (possibly a teeny-tiny voice at the back of your head, hiding in the metaphorical undergrowth, but present all the same) playing ‘is this as good as X?’, ‘will this drop the ball like Y did?’ or ‘will this be as good or better than Z?’ You can’t help yourself. Reviewing a debut is a little bit different from reviewing a novel by an established author. ![]()
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