Weekend reading

   

    Yesterday I quoted a passage from Esther Freud's new novel Mr Mac and Me, and Lucille kindly left a link to an interview with the author on Radio 4's Open Book. Do listen if you can as it gives an interesting insight into the background to the book which tells the story of the celebrated architect/designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh's time in the Suffolk village of Walberswick in 1914 and 1915, and his friendship with the young Thomas Maggs.

    I'm about half way through and loving the book, admiring Esther Freud's lightness of touch, and fascinated by the portrait of Mackintosh and his history, for despite his enormous standing now, this shows him at a time when his fortunes were on the ebb.

    That's my weekend reading - what's yours?