Picked this up earlier this year in a charity shop. One waiting to be read. I'm registering a few of the (far too) many TBRs waiting in my room partly as I'm at a loose end right now, partly because maybe if I put them on here (some of them) it will spur me on to plough through this mountain!

This one has been sitting around a while. So I thought I would finally get it read and picked it up late this afternoon. I've now read the first four chapters and I honestly don't care what happens to the characters, whether they manage to save the pub or not, or what the mystery the back blurb refers to is. This is polite, wooden writing with two-dimensional, stereotyped characters and a non thrilling plot. I am getting more picky in more old age. A few years ago I would have forced myself through the whole book. But these days I am thinking I have a very big TBR pile full of potentially much better books, a pile I am always adding to, so why waste my time on a book that I clearly have no interest in?

I am posting this to a bookmoocher in Northampton,, UK who would like to read it.