Stephen Ramay

Curtsier could do it, of course, but he wouldn't do it that way.

He would make Jesus a 10-year-old boy.

So it would be a different sort of approach to the same story.

Christos' novel is, you know, a regular novel in the sense that all of the characters that we know are the people that we sort of think we know of.

They haven't been transformed into 10-year-old boys or girls or dogs or horses or anything.

I will say that Lanny was the best foreign novel I read this year.

Right, got it.

Yes, non-Australian novel.

However, I would add that an even better novel than Lanny is his previous one, Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

That blew me away in a way that books don't do as regularly as perhaps they should.

Oh, no.

It's just that unlike you, I am aware that all of this is going to happen and I'm deeply interested in it.

So what were we talking about?

Difficult books.

Difficult books.

Okay, well, let's just roll him out, roll him out right now.

Michel Welbeck, the French novelist, and his new novel, Serotonin.

Now, I was thinking of David before I came in today because, not that this book has that, but you know how publishers these days are putting stickers on the cover of the book saying, if you don't love it, money back?

Does that happen much?

Makes sense.