Goodness it took me a long time to finish Black Swan Green and it really shouldn’t have. I liked it. Jason Taylor and his family, his friends and his enemies – all good characters. A British book set during the Falklands and no Thatcher-bashing (except for a brief bit by the gypsies) – my kind of book. No idea why it took so long to read – maybe it was just the whole 12 days of Christmas thing got in the way of my reading?
I never read Cloud Atlas last year when everyone else did. Black Swan Green makes me think maybe I should grab it from the library and give it a go.
Cloud Atlas is so very completely different from BSG as to feel like it was written by a different author. I personally think CA is brilliant and beautiful, but just that word of warning…I liked BSG as well – just two very very different books.