![]() ![]() I didn’t understand either the reasons for Pulse’s obsession or its resolution. The Gilded Ones feels more like a series of set pieces than a novel with a clear narrative arc. ![]() Pulse’s train journeys, where he is haunted by the reflection who is not quite him, capture that sense of being not just between places but between selves. Lloyd-Lewis’ home, with its bizarre smell of decay and its eerie cast of family, staff and hangers-on, is quite spooky. The setting is atmospheric, the imagery vivid, the world of Pulse claustrophobic. It’s a wonderful premise and the prose is gorgeous. When he learns that the woman in his dream is the designer’s late wife, Freia, he decides to take the position and obsessively pursues clues to her death. The day after a haunting dream, still tired and disoriented, he attends an interview with a famous, upper class and distinctly odd designer, Patrick Lloyd-Lewis. Pulse is a designer in 80s London, a working-class boy made good. ![]()
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