A longish book, so it took a while - but it was worth the effort. It tells the story of Roland’s whole life, with the timeline moving around, but not confusingly. The author’s descriptive prose conjures up vivid pictures, rather than just adding unnecessary floweriness. I’m not sure that I liked Roland - actually I found him a bit annoying - but that didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the read.
One irritant: I like to trust an author’s integrity so that I feel I learn from reading a book. So, silly errors niggle me. In this book we had an ambulance with a siren in 1959; emergency vehicles started using sirens about 5 years after this.
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