When it takes over a week to read 100 pages, it's a sign that I'm not really into it. I can't put my finger on it but it never engaged me in any way. Bound for BookCrossing.

Beneath the caricatures and wonderful comic vignettes this is a deeply serious book. Family, duty and the purpose of life itself flow through from start to finish. Kit Kennet is largely an enigma, until his Father's sacrifical love turns him to the contemplation of his own existence. Finally the two characters seem to merge. The tired and rather grubby landscape of London in the 50's is marvelllously evoked. ( )