"R.I.P." by Nigel Williams

Novel, 2015

Exploration of the unsightly behaviours and undignified actions following the death of the main protagonist. Through George, a retired bank manager's eyes, a story slowly - sometimes too slowly, especially at the beginning - evolves, exposing a good deal of suburban middle-class rot, which ends up, almost, as a 'whodunnit'. That the book isn't a whodunnit, nor magical realism or more straightforward social satire, but a rather ungainly mixture of all three, is problematic and while the prose is skillful it does little, at times, to engage the reader. A good book in places; though not so in others.