His attempts at colouring the reading only served to highlight just how bleak and empty the prose is. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Nicholas Bell?Ī man less earnest. Why jumble together a book about, " my rambles through the Abbeys of England" with, " my terrible divorce and the sordid aftermath" and " child abduction without preamble" and " ugly musings by an old man" in what might have been a detective novel? What was most disappointing about Kate Atkinson’s story? What a jumbled, grey, damp morass of non events. When I glanced up and saw there was still 7 hours to go, I gave up. It is tedious to the extreme with such a mess of story lines as to be incomprehensible and part way through one is left utterly not caring. Not so! No wonder they were unable or unwilling to make this novel the next contender. Having been tempted by the foreknowledge that the Brodie novels had been the basis for a reasonable TV series, I felt it was safe to try this novel. What disappointed you about Started Early, Took My Dog?
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