Lanny: Author of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller SHY
Max Porter
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all. 'Books this good don't come along very often.' Maggie O'Farrell 'Startling, moving and overwhelming . . . Wonderful.' Daily Telegraph 'Stunning and deeply affecting.' Nathan Filer 'A magically beguiling work, a triumph.' Financial Times A thing of total joy . . . thrums with rhythm and life.' Observer 'A devastating, disquieting and exhilarating book.' Psychologies
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oh, this is just pure magic. i really would not know where to begin describing this book to someone if they asked what it was about....there's one key plot point that you could tell them, but i think its best to keep that's hidden, so instead you just sort of have to thrust this book into someone's hand and be like trust me!! its good!! in a 200 page book, every character gets their moment, gets their time to shine and to be explored and you finish this book with a sense of clarity but also confusion which sits with you. the stream of consciousness in part 2 of the book worked so well and i think helped to expand the DPT character and what he sees, feels etc. idk i just kinda closed this book and just thought this is a great book...because it is
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