It sounds as though you and I were having the same sort of day yesterday. I have such great plans and then they seem to evaporate around me. Part of my problem is that I make more plans than I have the day to fill, if that makes any sort of sense at all, and in a panic none of them get fulfilled. I could do with a book that isn't going to ask a lot of me at the moment, having just come out of a very dense William Trevor. This might be just the answer.
This sounds a good book, and just short and long enough to keep it interesting especially when the whole week seems against you!
Annie - it makes perfect sense, I forget (or at least this is my explination) that by day off time I'm tired so have this long list of tasks and no energy so not much hope of getting through them.
Josbookjourney - I can read almost anything if it's short enough!
This sounds fantastic! I am going to see if the library has it. What a shame that you can't find out much about the author - I am clueless myself, I'm afraid!
See Orson Welles's THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI sometime. It's based on that book.