Hello again Paula

Reading Anne Tyler's Patchwork Planet at the moment and I've just read another of hers.... can't remember the title and I've lent it to a friend... about adopting a little girl from Korea ... so accurate in depicting people's emotions, I really enjoyed it. My memory for titles is shocking!

Also like Carol Shields. If you enjoy these two writers have you tried Anita Shreve... The Pilot's Wife is very good. One of my favourite authors is Sue Gee and she seems to have missed becoming famous, can't understand why. The Mysteries of Glass, about a young curate arriving in a village, set in Victorian times, and being drawn into a relationship with the vicar's wife, is excellent, and Earth and Heaven is brilliant too.

I really like Melvyn Bragg as a person but, as I think I said, not so taken with him as a writer.. have you read any of his novels? Enjoy the rest of the Festival and do give us an up-date!

Ginnie, I have a lot of time for Vince Cable but not sure he would be my first choice for a holiday read! Did you read Alexander M-S's Ladies Detective Agency books.. I enjoyed them too.

Off to bed now... see you soon!
Mags