Holding it together

Holiday reading: Marina Lewycka's latest novel, We are all made of glue, is reviewed by Annette White

by Annette White 17th December 2009

We are all made of glue by Marina Lewycka. Fig Tree (Penguin Group). ISBN 978 1 905 49022 6. Hardback: £18.99  Georgie Sinclair, the heroine of this delightful novel, edits the trade magazine Adhesives in the Modern World. About as exciting as a history of tractors in Ukrainian, you might think, and yet the fascinating facts about adhesives that emerge throughout the book, from the organic glues made of bones to modern polymers that share particles with each other, provide a rich extended metaphor about human bonding.