I really enjoyed this.I am 16 and wanted to try a book for the older as I enjoy them more. Once I got into it, I tried to read at every chance I got. McKeon is incredible at recognising small details of human expressions. Some might say it is slow-paced, but I felt the gradual build of the plot w...
James’s landlady had not wanted to rent it to another artist, but he had persuaded her, promising that there would be no paint, and no smell of turpentine, and no smell of hash, either, and no loud music. “My God, James, you’ve signed up to a very boring existence,” Aidan ...
Tom had waited for him all weekend, and Maura had given him stories about college work and scholarships and money that had to be applied for, and he had accepted it all, and he had started the work by himself on Saturday morning, mowing the first few meadows, getting the grass into rows, going th...