Lily King

The Evening of the Holiday is like this very slim, I don't want to say prose poem because that might put some people off, but it's just so beautifully written.

It's a love story.

She is just a master of the sentence and of the detail.

There's a bracelet, there's an ice cream cone, and at the very end, there are a pair of gloves.

And she just, I know this doesn't make it sound, it is just a brilliant book about a big love that can't really happen.

in a very small amount of pages.

But then Transit of Venus is this big saga about two sisters who come from Australia with their terrible kind of older cousin and Dora who's supposed to take care of them.

Is she an aunt maybe?

She's kind of maybe a younger aunt.

She's just a little bit older than they are.

And

It is so beautifully structurally.

It's almost like a small, there's mysteries tucked in that you don't even know that you're getting.

And again, the sentences, sentence by sentence, just glorious.

I was thinking about The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville.

I read that many years ago and I still, again, just remember the feeling of how much I loved that book.

It's about, I mean, I'm sure you all know, it's about a man who comes to a small town.

You're going to have to help me about what the town is called.

Gee, really?

It begins with a K and it's very long.