Cathy Rentzenbrink

I do.

I've come back to my Cornish roots.

It's very nice.

I recommend it.

So I read it three weeks ago.

But I will have read a bit of it when I was a bookseller when it came out because the new books would come in on the trolley.

And I would have read, standing up, I'll have looked in it, flicked through, done that slightly magic thing you do as a professional reader, where somehow you manage to absorb it.

So I'll have read a bit of it then.

And I do like it.

It's very French.

So you might think that's a good thing or a bad thing.

It's very French.

But that was a good, I mean, reading the first paragraph was a good thing.

If you liked that, read the book.

If you didn't like that, you're not going to like this book.

So that is actually a quick way to find out whether this book is for you.

Well, this is honestly the truth.

And if you knew me, you would know that I don't really like telling lies, especially as my memory goes, because then you can't remember and it's just awful.

But generally, I don't actually lie about whether or not I've read a book.

In fact, slightly the opposite.