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April 29, 2001
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On Green Dolphin Street

by Sebastian Faulks

Hutchinson, pounds 16.99, 341 pp

pounds 14.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222

IT IS hard to warm to On Green Dolphin Street in the same way one warmed to the three novels, culminating in Charlotte Gray, which Sebastian Faulks set in France. The American setting, though diligently researched, does not have the same charm as those deftly sketched French villages. Nor does the presidential campaign of 1960 provide as dramatic a backcloth as war-ravaged Europe. It will not be spoiling the plot if I reveal that a candidate called Richard Nixon is pipped to the post by one called John Kennedy.

The fictional characters have something of the same predictability. ...

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