An easy read, although some of the story did not make easy reading at all - it was the type of book that made me want to know what would happen, so I read it fast. Beautiful descriptions of the flora and fauna of the marsh; the drawing of the characters was less good, perhaps a little two-dimensional. I didn't see the ending coming (I am no good at seeing endings - I know others found it obvious), but I did find the ending when it came a little rushed and anti-climactic.

Things disappear and are forgotten - or remembered as something that once was, but now you can't remember what it was or what it was for. If you do encounter something disappeared, you scarcely recognise it. The Memory police take away anyone who does remember.
Quietly devastating. Society gradually unravels and it is seen as normal and unstoppable. The end is slightly surreal and almost inevitable.

Lady Susan was fun, a quick read. Lasy Susan herself was deliciously - almost impossibly - bad.
I enjoyed The Watsons, felt a lot of sympathy for Emma, wished there was more of it.
I wasn't too keen on Sanditon. Charlotte seemed a bit bland - maybe would have got more interesting as the novel progressed. The other characters were neither interesting or likeable on the whole.

Rather wondered where this would go following the happy ending of the first book, but that's all overturned in the first chapter, and things go wrong on all fronts. But this is a happy story on the whole, with familiar characters (including the pet puffin) and some new ones. Challenges arise and are overcome. There is baking,there are parties,there are misunderstandings and downright nasty people, but even they mostly come good in time. It all comes right in the end : of course it does. A happy easy read.

I listened to this as a BBC full cast recording, and quite enjoyed it. It's very much of its time, but that is part of its charm. As I remember doing before, when I read a paper copy, I got a bit muddled about who was who in the centre part of the novel, which was full of village gossip and things that had happened in the past, and dragged a little. The ending fell a bit flat for a murder mystery in my opinion, but was certainly clever and unexpected. I like Lord Peter, but he can't hold a candle to Albert Campion.

An enjoyable, but ultimately quite forgettable read. Writing this review a few weeks after finishing the book (mea culpa) I found I had to go back to it to remember anything about it beyond the fact that it was quite a fun read. There were lots of bookish anecdotes, and several. "Oh, me too!" moments for anyone who loves books and considers themselves a reader. I particularly liked the reinforcement that there is no "proper" way to be a reader, and that giving up on books (which I am very good at) is perfectly fine.