Our Noble Selves - Kate Atkinson


What a lovely novel! I enjoyed it so much. Again Kate Atkinson proves to me why she is one of my favourite writers. 

Harry Flynn is the perfect anti-hero and all the other characters very much come to their remarkable lives. This - sort of crime story - would be perfect as a tv series. I think it would be great too to remind people, tell people about the Festival of Britain that took place in 1951 and gave the nation quite a boost. I fear this has been almost totally forgotten. I would love to see Kate Atkinson write more about Harry Flynn. I probably would be one of the first buyers of that book.

5 Stars totally deserved.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rizzio - Denise Mina

Image
The story is well known by British people. For me it was new. I am still learning a lot about English history, lifestyle and more. Even after living over here more than 12 years I can not pretend I know it all. The tale is well written, I can imagine it all happening in front of my eyes in a TV series about the Tudors. Because of the fact that it is well written I give it 5 stars!
Read more

Normal People - Sally Rooney

Image
A novel about relationships. Especially about the relationship between Connell and Marianne, but also the characters who surrounded them. The novel is situated in the west of Ireland in a small town and in Dublin. It is really about misunderstanding, misinterpreting, (false) expectations and there is always that nagging "What will they think of me". It's often sad and I felt upset a few times, had to put the book down for some time. But I finished it anyway and I think I got rewarded for that. I feel like this great novel deserved a stronger ending, yet I don't have an idea how that ending should have sounded. So maybe the writer is right how she did it. Fully deserved 5 stars.
Read more

Held - Anne Michaels

Image
It's not an easy read. It's not long, but it took me a lot longer to finish this book than I normally do. It is quite poetic, consisting of snippets of text and bits that are a bit longer. It looks like there are quite a lot of different stories, but they do fit together. Like a very difficult jigsaw puzzle. Some bits are really gripping. At least I felt it like that. I loved the quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, a truly great but somehow forgotten writer. There was an explanation about the font that was used. I did like it, it made the reading a bit easier, I think. I gave it 4 stars.
Read more