#Latest news with #ASuitableNZ Herald08-05-2025EntertainmentNZ HeraldBook of the day: The Pretender by Jo HarkinIt's a bold claim: ' Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead '. Comparisons can be tricky. Publishers make them, of course, to place a book for potential readers, to whet their appetites. But the danger of overreach and disappointed expectations is always there. The blurb of Vikram Seth's desperately overlong novel A Suitable likened it to Middlemarch. Not so much.
NZ Herald08-05-2025EntertainmentNZ HeraldBook of the day: The Pretender by Jo HarkinIt's a bold claim: ' Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead '. Comparisons can be tricky. Publishers make them, of course, to place a book for potential readers, to whet their appetites. But the danger of overreach and disappointed expectations is always there. The blurb of Vikram Seth's desperately overlong novel A Suitable likened it to Middlemarch. Not so much.
08-05-2025
