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Waiting for the Man Booker magic to happen...

M.L. Stedman certainly has a beautiful turn of phrase so far... Like this description of a small town's invisible ties: Gradually, lives wove together once again into a practical sort of fabric in which every thread crossed and recrossed the others through school and work and marriage, embroidering connections invisible to those not from the town.

"He knows there is only one thing that separates us from the beasts: it is that everyone carries an Eden, an inner realm of silence, and this is what some call the soul, having no other name for it. The point is to allow people to reach it, be blessed by it, even briefly, to save them from the filthy undermurmur of living."

Am living mr. Everett's saucy, sassy memoir and am truly grateful he lived to tell the tale (not necessarily to be expected with all he got up to!). Great summer read!