Now before we begin,
I know this blog has been a little deserted in the last month. In the tumble of
work, Booktube, and (nearly) finishing writing my novel, I got slightly out of
the habit of writing book reviews, and then I got really out of the habit of
writing book reviews. However, as of today that is changing, for Emily St John
Mandel’s The Lola Quartet is far too
good to be consigned to a minute’s Booktube wrap up.
I read and reviewed
Mandel’s Station Eleven several
months ago now, and it was one of my absolute favourite novels of last year. A
post-apocalyptic novel that’s much more about people than about the apocalypse,
a travelling theatre company who perform Shakespeare in the face of the end of
the world, an interesting narrative structure and a lot of well-developed characters
with subtle links to one another – it’s a perfect, brilliant, wonderful novel.
So I was very excited and very nervous when I picked up The Lola Quartet.
