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order mysoline So far, so relatively uncomplicated. Enter a somewhat mysterious odd-job man, Kevin, and now the past comes surging up, essentially in the form of Annie's mother Jude, who is vaguely, but potently, remembered. The words "Sing a song of sixpence ... Four and 20?blackbirds baked in a pie" are evoked throughout the narrative, as a?kind of theme tune ??? to this reader, I'm afraid, irritating and fey, rather than resonant. Jude comes across as somewhat fey also, in so far as we glimpse her at all. And here is a central problem with this short novel: of the five characters, only the father is substantial enough to step off the page as a credible figure, with a voice and a?presence. He does convince, with his?silk shirts and Armani suits, his absolute belief in the sanctity of money. It is from this ??? the future that he has proposed for her, working in his business ??? that Annie has fled. What exactly he does is never made clear, along with so much else.