Love is Strange is, like love, strange. It is a sprawling account of a dysfunctional English family (the tightly wound Coyles) that unsettlingly moves us from the apparent tedium of Fifties suburbia through Sixties liberation in Swinging London to a present-day world of vice and kidnapping. A combination of monologue, dialogue and narrative alternately dulls and thrills the reader into a state of confused distraction. It can also claim to have created a new genre: kitchen-sink prose, in the sense both of the resolutely domestic subject matter and the fact that the author really has thrown everything into describing it.
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