Review: First Class Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2011
Ali Cooper has written an excellent novel. Her style is smooth and easy, her characters are very real and she is utterly comfortable with her subject. By that I don't just mean caving as a skill and sport, something she knows intimately and intimates very well, but also she is very much at home with human relationships, group dynamics and vagaries of human nature. I was deeply impressed by her clean, non-judgmental story telling, full of warmth but free from sentimentality.You don't need to know anything about caving or be particularly interested in it. The activity and locations are skillfully woven into the tale and make a perfect setting for the plot.