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I tried to breathe slowly, the way they tell you to do in yoga -- I once interviewed a gray-haired yogi with a Swedish wife 20 years his junior who claimed he could reduce his heartbeat to half its normal rate just through breathing slowly -- but the empty space between each breath gave me too much time to think.
There's a long time between each breath in and out.
Adam Thorpe's Between Each Breath is published by Cape.
The Standing Pool by Adam Thorpe Jonathan Cape £16.99, pp424 Adam Thorpe's last novel, Between Each Breath, was a satire on the Hampstead dinner-party scene, starring an amiable composer mired in bourgeois self-satisfaction, unwilling to take responsibility for his often shoddy actions.
They are inevitably superb – my favourite is Between Each Breath, an extraordinarily clever and beautifully written tale of music, marriage and Estonia – and always well-reviewed, and yet you look for his name in vain on Booker and bestseller lists alike.
He followed Between Each Breath with The Standing Pool, a chilling comedy of manners about a middle-class English family who spend a sabbatical in a remote house in rural France; and he followed that with Hodd, a novel that takes the form of a medieval document that purports to be the testimony of an anonymous monk who spent his youth in the greenwood with a bandit called Robert Hodd.
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