Tracy McEnaney

But again, I was talking to this about...

in our reading group again, and load of discussion about this book.

So really, it's a great book.

It's like grief, love, loss, marriage falling apart.

I don't like books about marriage falling apart, but this is a very, very good book, I think.

It does stay with you, absolutely.

Yeah, that's right.

I listened to this on BorrowBox.

It's a novel within a novel.

So you've got the present day.

Ella is unhappily married to a housewife.

She's living in Massachusetts.

She works as a literary agency and she's currently reading Sweet Blasphemy by Azir Zahara.

Now, Sweet Blasphemy is about a wandering dervish, Shams of Debris.

who is a mystic and he sees the vision of his death and he knows that he has to find a companion to whom he can deliver all his knowledge.

Now, I preferred the shams of debris part rather than the modern day.

And it is loosely based on Rumi, the 13th century historical figure who was a poet.

and his companion, Sham's Debris.

But yes, I did like the Sham's Debris part.

Not so much the modern day part, but still people love it.