Aeroplane reading en route for Spain. Haven't read a David Lodge for years.
Coming of age novel, apparently quite autobiographical, set in and just post war. Middle class English kid goes off to Heidelburg to stay with elder sister who is working for the Americans.
Very good - on UK and Germany and their interaction with the GI's who have got all the money and imported or imposed themselves and their culture onto a decimated Europe.
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