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8 December 2008updated 04 Sep 2021 2:51pm

Gastric distress

I fail to see how viewers could be expected to believe in a heroine who wouldn’t fall for a man with

By New Statesman

Well, that’s the next book done, then… It’s always a complete anti-climax when a book’s finished. You’ll pootle about your flat afterwards with a numb/emptied feeling, then send if off before beginning the enormous wait for anyone to get back to you.

The pause left at this point always being far too long – even if it’s only a few hours (not that it ever is only a few hours, you’ll understand – despite that fact that it is physically possible to read a book in a few hours…)

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