Jenny, it’s taken me five years to work out how to use the remote control for the television, I think I’m distinctly below average when it comes to new things so I wouldn’t let it trouble you.

I’m afraid I’ve just read a novel on which not only was the husband’s name Vivian but the friend’s name was Cecil and she was female…

Aw, yay, thanks! I’m glad you think they’re interesting!

Oh, sorry! I tried to make the Disqus plug-in as manageable as possible for people. If it’s too much hassle, let me know. It’s by way of an experiment, and if it makes ccommenting too difficult for anyone, it’ll be a failed experiment.

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 😀

Fantastic review, Jenny. I’d never even heard of this book and now I really want to read it. I have been rather intermittent with my internet visits recently (and bemused by Disqus, neeeew technology oh dearie) so didn’t realise you had an Africa reading project so am going to check out that page right now.

I’m glad you think so! I sometimes worry that it’s self-congratulatory by me and not fun for anyone to read. I find these books I’m reading SO INTERESTING, and I want to shout about the new things I’ve learned, is all. :p

Anyway, do not feel sad about anything. I’m doing this project, but there’s still so much I don’t know. I was reading a book set in Croatia last night and just had noooo idea about any of the history behind it. Except I was like “this is maybe the former Yugoslavia maybe?”

Oooo, that’d be wonderful. Malla Nunn writes a series of mystery novels set in apartheid South Africa, which are hella dark, and I bet it’d be even creepier to do something similar in the Lesotho medicine murders time.

I KNOW, it sounds like a hot mess. I feel especially bad for the regular people in Lesotho at the time of the medicine murders, because they didn’t ask for any of this mess — the succession crisis or anything — but they still got dragged into it. Sucks.