It’s not often I pick up a book and within minutes I’m transported elsewhere. Pages turning with quickening speed. On The Red Hill hasn’t been published yet, this is a proof copy, ahead of the June publication. The subject, a gay couple who died leaving their small farm to a younger couple they’d befriended is a topic I’d not normally read. Nor know much about. Yet this well written, well paced book spins the story from modern day deeply conservative mid-Wales to the post war gay scene in Bournemouth, via natural history observation and social change over 60 years. Well observed studies of human nature add to this mix. I’m half way through, a perfect relaxation for a Good Friday (that and watching a lovely film on TV over breakfast called When The Whales Came from 1989. A lovely relaxing day so far.
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