Reviews and Comments

Nope, not my area of interest - is he just looking round for new angles these days?

Not my thing, the memoir narrative approach just didn't work for me.

Interesting narrative structure but frankly too far removed from my own life to work for me, and not helped by the liberal use of ‘Indian’ (don’t want to guess which specific language) use throughout that distanced me further. Possibly a new niche market for some readers, but not for me.

Interesting narrative structure but frankly too far removed from my own life to work for me, and not helped by the liberal use of ‘Indian’ (don’t want to guess which specific language) use throughout that distanced me further. Possibly a new niche market for some readers, but not for me.

Easy reading, but frankly not a patch of his brilliant Slow Horses series. This felt almost like a may as well do another along the same lines' approach

An advertorial masquerading as a story. By 25% in I didn’t care what happened to anyone in the ‘plot’ formulaic and tedious. His first books were clever.

Certainly allows you to experience a different viewpoint on the world and how messy it is

Utterly damning of our government and the approach led by Johnson, most of the details I knew but time had blurred, but the disclosures about what went on and how so much was hushed up is utterly reprehensible.

I defy you not to be raging by the time you finish this.

And it’s just about the first year……

Utterly damning of our government and the approach led by Johnson, most of the details I knew but time had blurred, but the disclosures about what went on and how so much was hushed up is utterly reprehensible.

I defy you not to be raging by the time you finish this.

And it’s just about the first year……

Very clever

Very clever

I wanted to read this having enjoyed her Hardy. I hoped to get similar insights. I ended up being educated on the life and times but really little further aware of the man. A mix of a parade of names of people, précis of the novels and this a very long book that left me exasperated. Maybe not her fault as Dickens does seem to have very deliberately hidden much of himself.

I wanted to read this having enjoyed her Hardy. I hoped to get similar insights. I ended up being educated on the life and times but really little further aware of the man. A mix of a parade of names of people, précis of the novels and this a very long book that left me exasperated. Maybe not her fault as Dickens does seem to have very deliberately hidden much of himself.