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Is this the perfect spy story?
Intriguing characters with complex and never obvious relationships and histories, great plot and dialogues.
Reading it feels like a full immersion in a different time and place.
First part of a trilogy. I can't wait to read the others!
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy - John Le Carré
8/10
Dark, gruesome, gripping.
I could not read more than a couple of (short) chapters at a time, but I had to get to the end.
Fairytales are scary and I doubt I could read it again.
The Lamb, Lucy Rose
8/10
#NowRereading The Course of the Heart by #MJohnHarrison (in the new Serpent’s Tail edition published last week).
In the intensity and sapping misdirection of the current heatwave in the north of France, it seems as good a time as any to start to re-read one of my favourites of Mike’s novels. For all I know (and may soon discover) it may be the most auspicious of conditions in which to experience the book’s unsettling story.