Book review: The Road to Grantchester

This feature is in association with NetGalley. The Road to Grantchester, James Runcie Thanks to NetGalley and to Bloomsbury for an advance copy of The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie. I’m a big fan of Sidney Chambers, so it was great to be given this opportunity to find out what led him to Grantchester. First of all, I’m not keen on writing that’s in the present tense at all, but the story was so engaging I soon forgot to get […]

Back to normal … ish

We had planned on visiting my mom at the weekend, but the country was battered by storms last Thursday, and most of Saturday was spent rebuilding the greenhouse. I’d already spent time on Thursday and on Friday looking for bits that had blown off. But we live on the edge of a cornfield opposite a farm with livery next to open land, and at least one panel from the greenhouse may be lost for ever. It has a roof now, […]