Everything You Know - Zoe Heller

I'd read and enjoyed Notes On A Scandal before I saw this book lying around the teachers' flat in which I was then residing (in fact I'm trying to make my life a bit more Notes On A Scandal as we speak, but don't worry, all my students are adults, and older than I am). I also used to read her columns in The Sunday Times, but I hadn't heard of this earlier book until I stumbled across it. Willy Muller's life so far has been a comedy of errors. He has served time for his wife's death, a murder he may or may not have committed. His younger daughter has just killed herself, his older daughter has shunned her not-too-shabby upbringing for a life in one of London's ...  Read the complete review

I was in the middle of reading another book, actually a very good book, a rather large book; I was about half way through. As often happens in our household, my wife had been having a clear-out and had assembled a large carrier bag full of stuff to go to a suitable charity shop. In top lay a book. It was a book I'd not seen before and certainly hadn't read. Sending it to a charity shop wasn't our normal practice. Usually it gets listed on Bookmooch in our inventory, waiting for someone with similar tastes in reading, to pick up on it and request it. So, I picked it out to do just that and, as you do, started reading the synopsis. I was ...  Read the complete review