Day: 9 April 2020


As one who is forever wary of book cover blurbs, I approached this much-praised offering with even more caution than usual. Look at those blasts from high-status reviewers: Mind-bending, Unputdownable, Masterful. Surely hyperbole gone mad. There are six more pages of them inside, all of them in the same OTT vein. An enormous pinch of salt was clearly needed. Let’s not be over-influenced by the work of publishers’ spin doctors gone into overdrive. But I succumbed, got sucked in. And before I knew it, I was hurtling along on the mind-bending journey promised on  the cover. The book was found… Continue reading