A banquet for the thinking reader

   

    It's tremendously gratifying when someone takes up one of my recommendations and gets in touch later to tell me that they loved the book as much as I did. LizF did just that and she kindly left a comment today re. John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk (which I wrote about here); this is what she had to say:

"It is very rare that I get to the end of a book and want to go back to the beginning and start again but that was exactly how I felt when I finished this - just a shame that the library had to have it back! John Saturnall's Feast is one of those books that you inhabit and to think that I would have missed it if not for your review because I had struggled with one of Lawrence Norfolk's earlier books - thank you SO much for a real reading treat!! It is now on my Christmas list and if that fails I will just have to wait until it comes out in paperback and buy it myself (just hope they keep that gorgeous cover!)."

    Thankyou, Liz!

    It won't be long before I choose the 'Cornflower Blues' (my books of the year) - no prizes for guessing which title will be at the top of the fiction list.