Hampstead Fever by Carol Cooper
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Three point Five stars.
Hampstead Fever comes under the genre of contemporary literary fiction. The book is set in London and is the sequel to One Night at the Jacaranda, where a group of people met at a speed dating event. In Hampstead Fever the reader can meet some of these characters again.
Dan and Laure are a couple with an eleven month old child. Dan, an ex-prisoner, is a chef. He’s dissatisfied with the lack of sex on offer in his relationship. He’d also like to improve his vocabulary, so every day he tries a new word. This didn’t work as a defining characteristic for me I didn’t know the meaning of most of them and I didn’t want the distraction of breaking from the storyline to look them up; I felt it was a bit contrived.
Laure…
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