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BOOK REVIEW: Love may fail

Love's hard lessons, we've all been learnt the hard way someway or another.
Love May Fail by Matthew Quick

Picador, $35

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Portia Kane has fled her philandering pornographer husband and moved back in with her housebound mother, who she hasn’t seen in years.

When she learns her favourite high school teacher has retired early after being viciously attacked in the classroom, Portia decides to ‘save’ him.

The English teacher “was probably the most influential person in my life” so she tracks him down and finds him mourning the loss of his dog, Albert Camus, who may or may not have committed suicide.

An appealingly odd book, packed with eccentric characters and a lot of heart.

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Words by Eleanor Black

Photos by Thinkstock Images and Supplied

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