Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben

'I drank carrot juice, beetroot juice. Disgusting. It seemed undignified, to be so desperate as to drink beetroot juice. Yet people do it without a second thought.'
Witty and ironic, Belben's novel in vignettes begins and ends in Berlin. More often we find ourselves in the natural world, the loss of which Is Beauty Good so memorably laments.