Hornby's latest is not his best. It's okay. It has amusing, touching, and entertaining moments--not all at the same time but I kept thinking there could have been more. Annie & Duncan live in a small English seaside town and have been a couple for 15 years. During the entire time a third person has been an integral part of the relationship. The third person is Tucker Crowe, a Dylan-like musician with a cult following who disappeared 20 years before. Duncan lives and breathes all things Tucker Crowe, running a website for other rabid fans and embarking on pilgrimages to locations supposedly important in the musicians life and career. Annie & Duncan split and Annie finds herself in an on-line friendship with non other than the missing musician who has lived the past 20 years in multiple marriages & relationships and fathering children by a string of different women. When Tucker arrives in England, Duncan must learn to deal with the truth about the man he has been fanatical about for so many years.
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