Hi Sealover and nannyconnie,

So nice to find your comments after (another) long day at work!

The book I am reading this week has brought me down to earth with a bump (no feel good factor here!) – it’s South of the River by Blake Morrison.

The setting is mostly London (rather different to Tahiti); the story begins at the time of Labour’s election victory in 1997 and ends five years later. The central characters seem so real that I feel I know them; the blurb on the back of the book describes them as ‘a dysfunctional group – all different yet connected’. Sometimes their problems are solved but more often they are not and the only answer is to accept whatever hand fate deals them. In other words this book reflects real life!

It is very well written and very readable - I recommend it. However, I shall make sure the next book I read is one to lift my spirits!