So glad this is over...not a long book but it felt long, and boring most of the time. It's billed as a 'gently comic novel', which I think means it's supposed to be funny but it's mostly not. Somewhere in there might be a half decent book, but it seems buried in lots of superfluous detail and ostentatiously 'quirky' characters. Lots of pages pass without anything happening, and then there are little flurries of narrative development where so much happens that it's easy to miss it...particularly if you've got bored and started to skim, as I did. I love Sandi Toksvig on the radio, but this is not her best work.
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