Pinched from my mum because I've seen it on someones wishlist!

A Christmas gift, hope you like it!

Received in the post today from riffraff71 as a RABCK. Thanks very much-I shall look forward to reading it asap.

REVIEW:-"An, at times, amusing tale touching on two subjects I'm very interested in: deafness and dementia. I must admit that some of the information regarding linguistics and unfamiliar terms to do with it proved a bit boring in the early chapters so I did skim the story a little early on. However after that I stuck with it and even found myself laughing out loud once or twice. The author also made me feel sad a few times with his account of his father's slow decline into dementia and also when he charted his own declining hearing.
I felt indignant on his behalf when he was told by his son that he should "go to Auschwitz" against his better judgement when he didn't really want to go. Altogether a very readable novel and I would definitely read other books by this author.

Reserved for another bookcrosser.

This book was given to Snoopy56 when we met today for our first catchup since before the pandemic.

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When re-releasing this book please be aware that airports are not a good place to leave books unless they have a specific book exchange shelf or area, due to security problems, so they may well just be disposed of. Also charity shops may well discard books that have been labelled in any way and they mostly chose only the books in the very best condition
to place on their shelves and discard the rest-so another bad release option.

I have read and enjoyed other books by David Lodge and am currently reading his autobiography.

This is probably the most personal of David Lodge’s novels that I have read and the author acknowledges that that the main character’s deafness and interactions with his father are taken directly from his own experiences. I particularly liked the father and thought he was very sympathetically written. The plot was a bit hit and miss I thought. There were some funny passages but the weird student who was doing research into suicide notes was a bit odd.

Beach Road, Scratby.