by Penelope Fitzgerald
bookshelves: published-1988, slavic, autumn-2010, period-piece, re-read, spring-2011, play-dramatisation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, booker-longlist Read from February 26 to 27, 2011, read count: 2 ** spoiler alert ** Re-read details - Paper read this time, as I feel sure that there was m...
Re-read details - Paper read this time, as I feel sure that there was much more of a story than I gleaned from the BBC radio dramatisation.In 1913 the journey from Moscow to Charing Cross, changing at Warsaw, cost fourteen pounds, six shillings and threepence and took two and a half days.-----------...
This is not Penelope Fitzgerald's best, but it *is* still Penelope Fitzgerald. Plus I love the cover.