Book Review: Nutshell (a novel)

By Moristotle

With a whoop and a slap of my thigh, I finished Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Nutshell, its final act an ingenious, but inevitable turn of plot. What a read! I highly recommend Nutshell, for all those who like their fiction with a flair for invention – in language as well as in setting and narrative voice – and for informed comment on culture, politics, psychology…and, in this case, forensic investigation. For Nutshell involves a murder.

It smiles—sort of

Bowing to pressure from relatives and friends, I practiced some social expressions before my camera this morning. The occasion was that I was about to go get a haircut, and I wanted to capture my Derek Jacobi hair style as King Claudius in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).