Ratings11
Average rating4.1
The joy of this book was the knowledge is that I now have another 10 or so “go-to” ripe cherries to pick from whenever I want a short burst of happiness. It has a little bit of everything I love in a book: interesting characters, crisp dialogue, some gallows humour, a chance to learn about a time or place in history I was ignorant of, a clever whodunnit to go with the ride, a touch of fantasy. Who knew that Laos in the mid seventies would be my new refuge of whimsy