The Best of Times

This book by Penny Vincenzi was loaned to me by Mary, like most of the books I've read this summer. Totally and utterly compulsive - I read the first 400 pages in a day. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but it was a page turner. The ideal beach book - not too heavy (except in weight), but a gripping story, with lots of characters, whose lives become entertwined. It's not a Booker prize kind of book, but it was really entertaining -I might find another one of Ms Vincenzi's books next time I go on a beach holiday. Not that we went to the beach this summer - I read the first part of The Best of Times in our back garden on one of the few sunny days we had this summer (that's how it felt anyway - August wasn't too bad, we had a sunny day every 5 or 7 days. But there really wasn't a day this year when I felt like saying let's drop everything and go to the beach for the day).