I enjoyed this book! It was a pleasant foray into the Italian countryside with some interesting characters. And a bulldozer. I have read lots of McCall Smith books, and I would say this is the best one in recent years.

I can completely understand why this book won the Pulitzer Prize. A very intriguing story that is beautifully written.

I am really sad this book is over! It is an extremely well-written and fascinating story that was completely engrossing.

My 10-year-old daughter recommended that I should read this book, and I was prepared to be bored by fiction for kids. I actually enjoyed it! And I also learned things about the royal family and about World War II that I did not know before. I would definitely recommend this for young readers!

This book was a real page-turner!

This book was OK. I enjoyed reading a new version of Emma, and a well-done version, but it didn't really grab me.

Entertaining but that's it.

This book was all about plot. And the plot was clever but because the characters were so poorly developed, and so static, it didn't grip me at all and was annoyingly unrealistic.

Beautiful, gentle contemplative story that is yet very compelling. Highly recommend it!

Not as engaging as Peter Mayle's other novels, but a pleasant holiday read. A mental meander through the charming south of France with a little excitement mixed in.

Very funny book. Kept my husband up because I kept snorting and laughing out loud. I think Ms Kinsella captured the Tavishes as a “British Intellectual” type quite perfectly. Their conversation and her dinner/scrabble game at their house were very well done. Entertaining bedtime reading for sure.

Peter Robinson at his best. He's always excellent, blurring the lines between novel and mystery.

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Although this book was well-written, received a lot of critical acclaim, and somehow compelled me to finish it, I can't say it really made an impression on me. It didn't particularly interest me, and didn't really care about the characters. Very forgettable.

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Wow!

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