Post 506. ONE OF THOSE BOOKS

YOU CANNOT PUT DOWN.

BY DELIA OWENS.
Ms Owens first novel, and very much on a par with To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Where The Crawdads Sing was recommended to us by our granddaughter, Jessica, who also thinks it to be of Mocking Bird standard. We loved it, and I'd wager it will do for Delia Owens precisely what Harper Lee's book has for her. If she never wrote again she will always be remembered as the author of a beautifully crafted first timer. Crawdads is one of those books.
TELEVISION.
We binge watched the first six part series of Ian Rankin's Rebus (BBC1). Richard Rankin is Rebus, Lucie Shorthouse is Siobhan Clarke, and Stuart Bowman.is arch-villain Ger Cafferty. To my mind nobody can ever replace Ken Stott, Claire Price, and James Cosmo, but this new bunch is very good. Worth the watch.

FILM.
Recently we saw a Jason Statham film for the second time around. Can't remember what it was called: but the action was crazy the dialogue laconic, and it kept up Jas's mortgage payments. 

Great stuff for those who like an occasional madhouse.. We do.

We also saw the film version of Where The Crawdads Sing, directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay by Lucy Alibar. Lovely acting from Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya and her fellow actors, but it still puzzles me that film people always modify, even abandon, crucial parts of an author's story in the  belief, presumably, that theirs is a better version. It isn't. Good film, Almost the book.

NEWS.

Well it's politicians insincerely apologising for ghastly balls-ups perpetrated donkey's years ago.
Thank the Gods for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

And that's it for now.