Great collection of short stories. Most of them are around 15 pages long, which sounds like a lame reason to like something but actually made them perfect for bedtime reading. They are economically told and Lasdun has a great skill for releasing unexpected information quietly. For the most part t...
Here goes very a fine slice of literary gothic/psychological thriller fiction, one that kept me reading with great interest all the way thru. This reader was excited not just by the creepy, dark story, but by the very high quality of the writing. Lasdun writes deceptively simple prose in which st...
Seven Lies is not the easiest book to read. While many I'm sure, myself occasionally included, will trip from time to time over the vocabulary used to write this book I find what makes the book hardest to read it the attitude of the main character whose perspective the story is told from. In part...
Roland had flown into London the night before and slept at the hotel off Russell Square where he’d stayed during the last days of his mother’s illness. The ceremony, at the parish church near his father’s new house in Suffolk, was set for noon, reception at the house to follow. Roland woke late a...