No Mo' Wri' Mo'

If I had done the November novel thing, today I would have a new one. I'm going to do it in January, though.

Atonement is a good novel. When Briony was holding the dead French boy and the head nurse spoke gently to her, I was moved to tears. Finding at the end that this was the book that Briony wrote when she was old, I guess, explained why the first half dwelt in such detail on the English country garden scene. After that, the sudden plunge into the horror of the retreat to Dunkirk was riveting. Strange how every character was captured in a few words and made human from his creation, except Cecilia and Robbie, who both remained shadowy. This, too, I expect, is explained by Briony's knowing them only when she herself was a child.