Nepaali, I too have not had a chance to read her new book. Missed meeting her this year during the Edinburgh festival up in Scotland. For your info, she's a huge EM Forster fanatic - critics say this new book draws loosely on a few of Forster's characters from Howard's End. Look forward to reading it when I have some free time in the future - but for now, I'm pretty happy reading Sajha posts! :) My schedules are a complete choc-a-bloc at the moment, and it's always like at this time of the year, in the run up to the Christmas stand down. That's when I plan on reading a bit more. Thanks for your post. Take care. Carpe diem