![]() However, no sooner does she arrive at the home of Frank Thringley than he is ‘disincorporated’ by a young man who turns out to be one of the left-handed booksellers of the title. Is he in any way related to the mystical dreams that she has been having or are they simply the product, as she muses, of “a childhood diet of Susan Cooper, Tolkien and CS Lewis”? She intends to start by visiting ‘ Uncle’ Frank, who always sends and signs a Christmas card and who might, therefore, just be a possible candidate. Susan is planning to make her way to London, to study art when the new academic year begins but in the interim to try and find out something about this mysterious father of hers. ![]() ![]() Susan Arkshaw is celebrating her 18th birthday and wondering again just who the father she has never met might have been. It begins somewhere in the West of England, not far from Bath, at 5:42 am on May Day, 1983. Nix’s novel does not, however, begin in London. Now really, I ask you, what self-respecting book blogger could resist a book with a title like that? The questions that it raises! What about the right-handed booksellers of London? What, it eventually becomes apparent I should be asking, about the evenhanded booksellers of London? And why does it matter in the first place? ![]()
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