Customer Reviews
A snore - By: Hart Crane, 23 Jun 2008 
I am beyond irritated that I wasted money on this overhyped fiction debut. Fonseca has been riding on her husband's coattails for years, & Attachment serves as an explanation: she has no fiction-writing skills of her own. It is impossible to care for her spoilt menopausal Hampstead Housewife Jean, whose emotional life appears to be centred on her hip-to-waist ratio, & her sleazy husband Mark is a cardboard cut-out. Very, very ordinary.
Interesting fiction debut - By: Mrs. M. Daly, 21 Jun 2008 
After reading 'Attachment', i can't understand where the previous reviewer is coming from. The book was beautifully paced, with vivid descriptions of each different setting. I didn't find the main character to be particularly self-absorbed; certainly no more so than anybody would be in her situation. A woman who has a serious health worry & possibly a straying husband is bound to be a bit preoccupied with her own situation. I couldn't put this book down, & read it over one day & night. It is definitely on the shortlist for my book of the year.
A complete embarrassment - By: Compulsive Reader, 01 Jun 2008 What a pompous ass! The narcissism & inanity of this novel almost defeats description. The prose alone should win the Golden Raspberry ("Moleh," she'd said, pouring cold shampoo on the crown of Jean's head, "you know, the fontanel ..."). If you can handle endless pontification about intellectual vanity & debates about which bird's nest a hairstyle most resembles, this is your gal. Me? I'd rather eat my daughter's nappies.
A complete embarrassment - By: Compulsive Reader, 30 Apr 2008 What a pompous ass! The narcissism & inanity of this novel almost defeats description. The prose alone should win the Golden Raspberry ("Moleh," she'd said, pouring cold shampoo on the crown of Jean's head, "you know, the fontanel ..."). If you can handle endless pontification about intellectual vanity & debates about which bird's nest a hairstyle most resembles, this is your gal. Me? I'd rather eat my daughter's nappies.
