John Mitchinson

It's so full of things.

I can't quite believe how she's managed to fill it up with so many resonances and relevancies.

And also, John, it really reminded me of former backlisted subject,

red shift yeah it's not as fragmented as red shift by alan garner but it has a similar relationship between echoing the past things that happened several thousand years ago or hundred years ago and things that happening right now so that's what i thought about it i thought it was absolutely terrific i think i was the last person at this table to read the book because nikki you read this didn't you yeah you said on the last episode that you read it i

These writers.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And George, you like this as well.

I think it's fantastic.

This quote on the back from Jesse Burton.

I have never read a novel this slender that holds inside it quite so much.

Actually, that's perfectly fair.

I mean, really, don't you think?

Oh, it's transformative.

And you interviewed her, didn't you?

Did you do an event with her?

I could never, I mean, I'd just never do the second one.

But I can see the...

You know, I can see... It's a good excuse though, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah.

I can see the theory that you create a memory of the thing that you wrote.