Yesterday was Sunday - and Sunday mornings are traditionally time for a lie-in and some extra reading in our house. Unusually, I found myself in the position of being able to finish not one but two books - how satisfying is that?
The books were Affinity by Sarah Waters, which I was keen to rad before the TV serialisation starts, and Suzanne Berne's A Ghost At The Table. Both very good, although I don't think Berne quite matched her prize-winning A Crime In The Neighbourhood. The ending was a bit 'so what?' - but in a way that suited the book, really. Anything too dramatic would have been wrong. I suppose I had hoped for a bit more clarification. Whereas Affinity had a fine dramatic conclusion and was all the more enjoyable for it. The story is one of Waters' Victorian tales, based around a young spirit medum who is in jail for assault. It is very well imagined and rather a good mystery story.
Anyway, one of the best things about endings is... they mean it's time to choose the next beginning!