Eighth Sunday Salon: 14.00
A late start because I have spent the morning doing stuff for Christmas - and thoroughly enjoying it this year, I think partly because I went to a Christmas Carol concert last night which I found quite wonderful. I shall write a post about that later.However, since it is Sunday Salon I shall now concentrate on a book. I am half way through THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE by Mary Lawson, which I am enjoying tremendously. It is a straightforward tale following one Arthur - a slow-witted boy who has a younger but much sharper brother called Jake, and then, in alternate chapters, a story set about thirty years later that follows a boy called Ian who goes to work at Arthur's farm because he lusts after Arthur's wife Laura.
posted by Clare Dudman at 2:03 pm
4 Comments:
I liked her first (?), Crow Lake. It is quite unusual in being a (non-genre) book in which the protag is a scientist. Or married to a scientist, it is so long ago that I read it that I can't quite fix it. It is relatively unusual, though, to read a novel in which a character both happens to be a scientist and whose scientific work figures rather than simply being referred to "outside the plot".
Yes, I enjoyed 'Crow Lake' as well. I haven't come across this one, but it sounds as though it might be joining the TBR pile.
mmm you'll have let us know how that turned out!
I've not read Crow Lake yet - and not through this one yet, but I am loving it. Crow Lake will definitely have to go on the TBR pile after this - I'd no idea it was about a scientist - even better, then...
I shall report back when I've finished.
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