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Title: Easy to read, good descriptions
Review: Easy and light, so a good choice if that's what you're in the mood for. The text is in short sections, sometimes only a quarter of a page, which makes it easy to stop and start but hard to keep track of the action, which skitters around, as do the characters.The setting--the English country estate of minor aristocracy in the mid-1960s--is interesting and sounds mostly accurate, though I wonder if English fathers and teenage daughters really discussed extramarital sex casually and openly in those days. A turn-off for me was the reminder of how that class, at that time, indulged in extreme cruelty to animals. (It's not in every scene, of course.)All in all, the journey was a bit bumpy but quite fun, and I never considered abandoning the book. Three months later, I can still see scenes in my mind, a testament to Annabel Dilke's descriptions.
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