Three reviews on this site now, and thanks to Kumara for his review as he read the book on a day so hot that he should have been sitting outside somewhere with a beer instead. I spent the same hot day floating for six hours down the mirror-like river Earn in Perthshire in a small rubber dinghy, to the point in the river where it's nearest the village of Findo Gask, the place where I nicked my protaginist's name from. It wasn't for any book related reason that we floated to Findo Gask, it's simply a glorious thing to do on a hot summer's day and we hadn't floated down that river before.