Making The Best Of It

[poliphilo]

My father-in-law was in a grump yesterday. He thought they were going to discharge him and they didn't. Instead there will be tests. 

I didn't see him myself. I drove in with Ailz and Dot, assembled Ailz's disability scooter for her, then stayed behind in the car, reading a book.  It was a sunny day. Earlier I'd been sitting out in the back yard.

I'm reading Mary Wesley. Ailz put me onto her. I'm full of admiration for a novelist who only started writing at an age when most novelists are either dead or winding down into senescence, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stomach her cast of toffs and philistines- even if she is sending them up. 

Comments

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Are you reading The Chamomile Lawn? I rather like her toffs and Philistines. All her books have exactly the same plot, though.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Harnessing Peacocks.

I'm warming to her. She's a good hater.

[sovay]

I'm full of admiration for a novelist who only started writing at an age when most novelists are either dead or winding down into senescence, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stomach her cast of toffs and philistines- even if she is sending them up.

I really liked The Camomile Lawn (1984), which I read last fall.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm reading Harnessing Peacocks. Judging by your review, it's very much the same kind of thing as TCL. The deeper I get the more I like her.