

#ancientkindle
What a lovely book! People being decent to one other and taking the trouble not only to talk but really communicate and sweeten each other's lives thereby.
How does he do it? I haven't read such simple, pared back prose since his Plainsong, probably, but it never comes across as meagre. Something like a really good, homemade bread: wholly satisfying without the need for five kinds of frosting and sprinkles.