Following The Rotters’ Club, I’ve now finished Jonathan Coe’s The Closed Circle. Excellent. So many circles: of understanding, of relationship, of power. Circles to get trapped inside, impotently, and circles to carry you inexorably forward, like great wheels. [OK, that’s enough of that. – Ed.]
Anyway, it’s a wonderful two-part novel. Even though Coe includes a synopsis of The Rotter’s Club at the end of The Closed Circle (“just in case you’ve forgotten it”), the two books really have to be read as a single work. For those who bought the first book two or three years ago, the wait must have been unbearable….
What next? Based on Amazon.com reviews, I think I’ll try The Winshaw Legacy next. (Mind you, I’m supposed to be reading up on M&A practices and storage virtualization….)