It would drive you mad, wouldn’t it? After a while I did get quite interested in the characters and I like the idea of a series about people of different times living in the same house, so I’ll probably read the others.įorgettable books. Legislation in 1983 had made this compulsory’. Imagine a book set in the present day which included the sentence, ‘He got into the car and buckled his seat belt.
I do hate to be instructed about the past (all writers of historical fiction should take a lesson from Rosemary Sutcliff). I’d always assumed I wouldn’t like Norah Lofts and there are irritations here. I was reading it on and off for about a week, never feeling excited about getting back to it. This was part of my recent jumble sale haul, where I picked up a boxed set of The Suffolk Trilogy. Longest book: The Town House by Norah Loft. The Strange fate of Kitty Easton, Elizabeth Speller Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, Kate Summerscale The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor, M C Beaton
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