Present: Jen, Sabine, Gill, Doris, Shubha, Nic, Clem, Mark
I hadn't finished this novel when we had dinner, indeed, had barely started, so I didn't realise at the time how incredibly apt it was that we were eating in an hotel "miles away at the back of nowhere near Hyde Park". Look's like Jen's abandoned attempts to win Book of the Year and, instead, set her hat at Most Apt Venue of the Year!
Likely to be our best turn out of the year, we each enjoyed the walk through glamorous Knightsbridge more than we enjoyed the book but that hardly dampened our spirits. We didn't love either the book or the restaurant but we didn't hate them either - they just weren't exciting. Those who'd reached the end of the novel found the sudden introduction of religion jarring although, by the time I read that far, perhaps forewarned, I didn't have the same experience. Otherwise the reviews consistently rang with words like "gentle" (kind version) and "dull" (less kind).
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