TBR quite soon

Read it in two days, which is super-quick for me. The author managed to win me over as early as page 3, by getting in a dig about having the exact change for the bus.

Taking to the meetup on Saturday.

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This book was nudged towards me by shnedwards at the meetup. I took the bait and brought this home with me.

And I've now read it. And enjoyed it. I love reading references to Birmingham and imagining the characters in the places mentioned.

On the bookshelf shelf to the left as you go into the back room.

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Gill passed this to me today and I'm hoping to pass it on to another BookCrosser quite soon, watch this space ...

Dermot, newly widowed, decides to visit his son, Eamon, in his crumbling apartment in a Spanish resort that has fallen foul of the economic downturn and remains an outpost of expat civilisation, full of feral cats (nothing bad happens to the cats) and centred around a swimming pool with no water. Is the place depressing Eamon, or was he depressed already? And what's happened to his girlfriend?

Practical Dermot sets to work trying to sort things out, in the neglected flat, in Eamon's disconnected life, and then in the community at large. He encounters the ex-pat community in a different way from Eamon, missing out on the cues about the on-going rivalries and oddnesses, but developing his own routines and friendships, including with the outcasts in that outcast group.

It's a lovely warm and moving novel, set partly in Birmingham, examining masculinity and the world of work, political correctness and friendship, marriage and family, while remaining a light read and one eminently suitable for a holiday read.

Passed to lovely Icelandic bookcrossers today. Thank you for coming out to meet us, we had a lovely evening!

Thanks so much for the book lyzzybee and the yammy chocolate :) it was really nice to meet you!!

The grass is usually never greener on the other side, the people who moved to Lomaverde sure found that out!! Funny book, I really liked Dermot and his comments :) I will pass this book on to birnsen when I meet her in next month.

Will pass this book on to birnsen when I meet her later today :)

a good read - really enjoyed this book :-)

sending it off to another bookcrosser as RABCK :-)

Thank you for the book and the parcel for Easter! :)