Memoirs of a Dipper
I received this book via the FirstRead giveaways of Goodreads.I enjoy the book, but I was confuse...
'Leyshon is a master of domestic suspense' - Observer 'There's different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too close to theirs. Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross the line.' Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again. But Gary is also fiercely intelligent - he often knows more about the antique furniture he is stealing than the people who own it, and is confident in his ability to trick his way out of any situation, always one...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780241184240 / 0
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I received this book via the FirstRead giveaways of Goodreads.I enjoy the book, but I was confuse with some parts of it. I don't know if it's because english is not my first language, but some vocabulary and the way the sentence were made kind of lost me a little bit. I had also the impression sometimes that they were missing some part... I read this book in one go!! It sucked me in I just couldn't put it down!! So true to real life I had remind myself it was fiction. Fantastic book. Definitely going to read more of this author This book started strongly in media res and immediately it had a gritty realism reminiscent of Alan Sillitoe and the films of Ken Loach.As the book progresses through the life of Gary the main character who is to say the least a dodgy geezer my willing sense of disbelief came to the fore.I felt that the pace stumbles and gets sketchy.There...
