pickA curious story that combines wonderfully ascerbic humour from Lydia, a London journalist, who returns to her Welsh cottage with her put upon friend Betty, with lovely descriptive writing. Lydia + Betty mingle with the locals and enjoy the various relationships that allow Lydia scope for her barbs. There is also a strange supernatural thread + commentary by a curious absent character, Angharad, which perhaps added little. Very enjoyable ⬇️
andrew61 and will read more by the author as I love that gently dark middle class writing reminiscent of spark et al. Picked this up after it was referenced by Jonathan coe on the New bbc book prog Take four books which is good albeit I am still annoyed about the bbc axing open book a great programme specifically focused on books as they also did a few years ago with the film programme. 6d
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