Appropriately, it’s been over a week since I resolved to write this review. Procrastinating about reviewing a book called ‘The To Do List’…. I think that’s almost Zen.
Based very firmly on a true story, the Surgeon of Crowthorne concerns the inestimable assistance one Dr W.C. Minor gave in assembling the first concise Oxford English Dictionary. He was deeply interested in language as well as being a keen painter and a man of science. Oh, and he was a paranoid, delusional, sex-obsessed, …
Erik Davidsen is, in no particular order, divorced, a psychiatrist, Norwegian American, childless and a very lonely man.
Set in the infamous Salem, The Lace Reader concerns an admittedly insane protagonist and her return to her childhood home. Amidst a tale of death, magic, lies and, for some reason, lace, she tells the reader about her past and why she’s been damaged so badly.