This Must Be the Place                                             

Maggie O'Farrell

Vintage Contemporaries/PRH

     I recently went to a wonderful jazz show - Ron Carter's quartet - and it made me think of this book. It is the literary equal of great jazz - many pieces, each lovely and moving on its own, coming together and separately - brushing against each and moving away - and somehow creating its own perfect whole.

    If you loved Hamnet, or even if you didn't, you have to read this earlier book. It's a gem. 

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