Picked up in a Healthy Planet bookshop.

'The Last Jet Engine Laugh' is ostensibly a family saga covering three generations of the Bhatt family stretching from a period when India was on the cusp of independence from Britain to the near future; to 2030 when the country is at war with a Pakistan-Saudi alliance and his daughter, a crack fighter pilot, is above the earth as a member of a crew manning an Indian Space Station.

I found it a really difficult read. The main problem being that the timeline just isn't linear, instead it stops haphazardly over a period of roughly seventy years which simply left me confused.

Joshi can certainly write so I blame this, at least in part, on his editors. There are the bare bones of two if not three good books here but as a whole its a mish-mash that just doesn't work and left me disappointed.

Hopefully the next reader will enjoy it more.

Going out as a sort of Brucie Bonus. I hope that you haven't already read it and is something that you wouldn't normally pick up. Enjoy!

Thank you for this extra surprise, not an author or a book I’ve heard of, so will be interesting to see what I think.