Just the ticket for my COVID isolation read in Leh – a nice chunky novel revolving around the world of book publishing. Key characters: frenemies Gemma and Lily – connected by ex/current partner Anton – and London-based publishing agent Jojo who’s in the throes of a secret affair with her boss Mark. Oh, and Gemma’s mum and dad.
Plenty of insight into the world of book publishing and promotion – advances, auctions, deals and disappointments – and, as always, the relationships we have with family and friends
Picked up from LW London and left at the Glacier View Hotel, Leh, for someone else to enjoy…
We’re in an Oxford Police Station, where a nanny is being interviewed following the disappearance of the young girl in her care. Bit by bit we learn more about our narrator, the family she works for and Oxford college life and politics.
I’ve been slogging my way through this for a good few weeks now. Podcasts and more recently Jessie Burton’s The Confession on audiobook took precedence over bedtime reading.
And today I picked up a bunch of new books from the library all of which I actually want to read rather than feel I ought to. So I’m putting Hot Milk to one side, probably never to return.
I thoroughly enjoyed these parallel stories of mother and daughter, the mystery of the mother’s disappearance from her daughter’s life and the characters connecting the two.
