Mapped out

    

     Permit me one more reference, for now, to the wonderful world of Mapp and Lucia, but this time to a new novel which fills a gap between two of E. F. Benson's. Taking on another author's characters is an immensely challenging undertaking - Tom Holt did it with Lucia in Wartime and Lucia Triumphant - but Guy Fraser-Sampson's Major Benjy comes highly recommended (read Simon's post about it here), and any Bensonites within striking distance of Oxford may like to hear Guy talk about the book at the Oxford Literary Festival on 1st. April.