Airmail by Naomi Bulger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A fact: 'Airmail' is the kind of book any book lover would want to own just for its cover if not anything else!


A story: A girl sees a book on her Goodreads recommendation, falls in love with the cover and is mildly interested by the story-line. An indulging cousin buys his little cousin a book. A girl, after she finishes a book, is so lost in the story that she feels incapacitated to give it a fair review until someone else has read it, until she can chew the story and until she can reminisce about the old man with a portrait who saw everything and knew everything, about the girl followed by the Pink Tracksuit and marbles who multiply with stories.

Sounds dreamy? Poetic? Well, that's 'Airmail' for you! It's dreamy, it's poetic, it's even crazy! Sometimes it seems to make no sense and yet, for a someone's first go at novels this is a master-piece. If you've liked Jean Rhys' 'Good Morning, Midnight' I see no reason why you shouldn't like this!

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