Having had a too-long break from fiction I took this Booker nominated book by a Nobel prize-winning writer off the shelf, where it’s been sitting for a little while waiting to be read. This is bound to be good, surely.
Summertime
J M CoetzeeHarvill Secker 2009, Hardcover, 272 pages, £17.99
The body of the book consists of a series of [...]
Pony books get a terrible press. They summon up thoughts of pink-faced young gels in breeches smacking crops against their boots and “winning through” to win umpteen rosettes in implausibly competitive country shows.
Well, Thelwell’s certainly full of these caricatures, and the frankly terrifying Saddle Club series from the 90s scared any competitive edge out of [...]
