Thanks to all who offered suggestions as to the identity of Lee's mystery book (see below) - I knew you'd be able to help!
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Remember the 2018 Reader Survey? The results are in. Mary apologises for having taken longer than expected to compile her report; as you can read here, a vacation took a very dramatic turn indeed. Thank goodness she is all right.
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William Boyd's new novel Love is Blind has gone straight to the head of my reading queue. It's set at the end of the nineteenth century, has a musical theme, and features a young Edinburgh man, Brodie Moncur. Here's the author in conversation with Waterstones' Will Rycroft: