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But Lyris is not the only character suffering from delusions; there is Nathan's ex-girlfriend, Jacki, and Lyris's middle-aged and frustrated friend Clovis. There is Clovis's ex-wife, Isobel, and his current girlfriend, Candy. There is Nathan's crowd of unsuccessful artist-wannabe friends and his grasping parents, Buster and Sonia--all suffering in various degrees a disconnect between what is real and what they'd desperately like to believe. Mackay masterfully mixes and mismatches her creations and leaves them with at least as many loose strings dangling as ones that have been tied up. Readers looking for an uncomplicated happy ending, beware: the worldview expressed in this gleefully black domestic comedy has far more in common with Evelyn Waugh's than Jan Karon's. --Alix Wilber
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