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Oct 9, 20221 min read
1020. Antoine Laurain - The Presidents Hat
One via P. Very light, Parisian story about a man who inadvertently steals Francois Mitterand’s hat from a Paris restaurant. He...
Mar 7, 20221 min read
954. Alison Lurie - Real People
I enjoyed this although it started slowly and ponderously. Illyria is a country estate, somewhere near New York, to which leading artists...
Aug 14, 20211 min read
884. Jodie Chapman - Another Life
This was very good, but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been written in a linear narrative, rather than with all the time shifts,...
Sep 24, 20151 min read
340. Patrick Gale - The Whole Day Through
A short and unplanned read post no.339 above. This is a very good book, but as I had forgotten about it I can’t think of much to say. If...
Aug 29, 20151 min read
333. Kate Atkinson - A God In Ruins
As it is a library book, due back 5 September, I thought worth another read. It is actually quite an old fashioned novel, reminded me at...
Dec 17, 20141 min read
270. Rachel Cusk - Outline
Paddy got this from the library and enjoyed it, initially. I didn’t; it is the sort of book I can’t really see the point of writing,...
Apr 5, 20141 min read
195. Patrick Gale - The Whole Day Through
A beautiful (short) novel, about a couple who were literally a couple at university, meet in later life when he is married, have a brief...
Jun 29, 20131 min read
124. David Lodge - Therapy
Tried ‘How Far Can you Go’ on return from Spain, but I couldn’t go very far; too many characters sitting around in a church in the...
Sep 17, 20121 min read
42. Rachel Heath - Part Of The Spell
One of P's library books; she thought it was a thriller, but it isn't. A bit 'chic lit' for me, about small-town life in Saffron Walden,...