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SHEILA HANCOCK!
“I’ve never read this sort of book before in my life, so I wanted to do this as a challenge. And I loved it! The only thing was, like with Morse, I had trouble following the plot and had to keep flicking back and forth to check who characters were.
“It was incredibly well-written and evocative – the author could evoke London with a sentence, he had a really interesting writing style in that way. More than anything it was refreshing to read a book that wasn’t pretentious in any way – it was very unflashy but incredibly well-written.
“For instance, I loved the descriptions of the deaths, especially the almost analytical descriptions of bullets tearing through flesh and what actual medical effects that has.
“It’s a story of betrayal and you end up not trusting anyone, but it’s also very funny in parts. When George says how, when reading thrillers, you like to flick forward to check the characters make it out of their current predicament alive – that’s exactly what I was doing, and so that made me laugh out loud. It was almost a Jane Austen ‘Dear reader’ moment.
“Having not read a spy genre book before, I can see how people get so into them. Especially now, with the Iraq war and how espionage is so important, interesting, and perhaps going badly wrong. I might well read more from the genre, but I have to steel myself to coping with the tangled plots first!”
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RICHARD & JUDY'S SUMMER READ 2005
Find out more about all the other books in the Summer Read
>>here
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