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I suspect that after the academic trials of Solzenitsin, DM has taken a holiday, but instead of reading an airport novel, he decided to write one.
I first read "Lady" whilst on Skyathos, only 30km(?) from the fictional island of Skagathos on which the novel is set.
"Lady" is a fine and entertaining novel, placing its commentry in a new age resort for singles seeking enlightenment in the sunny greek islands. As with all of his novels the darker side presides. Freudian psychoanalysis is converted to orgasam therapy with an under current of Sam Spadesque detection after the demise of the title protaganist.
DM's earlier works, the "Russian Nights" quintet, are picked up in the collabrative vein, with the vague community development aspects of trite holistic therapies on offer for the new age traveller. As with the previous works it is impossible to tell if the complicity in the work is fact or fiction.
DM Thomas is perhaps one of the most unsung of British contempory novelists. His main success, "The White Hotel", is surpassed in convoloution and imagination by every preceeding work. "Lady with a Laptop" may seem to be a bus man's holiday of a novel, but it leaves a sweet appetiser taste for the next cutting issue from a remarkable novelists pen.
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