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Having really enjoyed the last in this series after a long break I wondered whether this would be as much fun to read. It was. Russell and Holmes go to India searching for a lost British spy, who in a neat fiction tie in, is Kipling's Kim when he's all grown up. Good holiday reading.

Purchased on 8th February 2006.

Picked up off the bookshelf in our holiday cottage - by Darren actually who thought I might like it based on the fact that he'd read another of Mackay's books years ago. And I did. Found it all a bit flowery at first (mostly due to reading it hot on the heels of Ian McEwan I think) but it paints a vivid picture of a 1950s village childhood. Some aspects of it I found a bit stereotypical but in the end they didn't distract from the overall tale.

Borrowed.

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Best book I've read this year, and I don't feel like I've been reading a load of rubbish either. I wasn't at all sure to start with, what with brain surgery and the book being set in a single day, but it grew on me immensely. Off to find more McEwan to read.

Borrowed.

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