An exquisite book.What was the "something nasty" Aunt Ada Doom saw in the woodshed?
(I feel that I should also add that much of this was read on the tube recently, and when we went to the cinema I carried on reading until the lights went down. Very funny, very unusual. A funny/strange feature: it is said "in the near future" - it was written in 1932, and at one point a character refers back to a 1942 war. What is funny is that you are not conscious of this normally - if anything, it has a real twenties/thirties feel about it - but every so often there's a strange anachronistic feature, such as "he dwiddled the dial on his picturephone" (that's not an actual quote, by the way!) or the "airpost". Anyway, other than that, this is a great book. Not bad for £2.49 at Oxfam ... As I said - exquisite.)
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