On my way through the Palliser novels, Greatnan, I've just finished The Prime Minister and some of the observations on coalition government could hardly be more apposite now. When I was 14 and off school with and abscess in my ear, I had gone though almost everything Agatha Christie ever wrote and was brought a copy of Sense and Sensibility by one of my mother's friends. I still have that book and all of Jane's others - well thumbed over the years, my comfort reading. As for George Eliot, I adore Middlemarch which is a most skilfully plotted novel - and I fell in love with Adam Bede.
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