Books by Paul Torday
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review 1: I knew I couldn't expect a happy ending from Paul Torday it never was how he seemed to work. I guess like life, in a lot of ways his endings are more realistic and give you food for thought. I largely enjoyed this book - I like to read stories that explain at least partially why ...
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review 1: So I went into this book not knowing what it was about and I went out of this book still unsure of what I just read.The story is narrated by two narrators, Elizabeth and Michael, who lead a rather cold marriage. Nothing exciting happens, Elizabeth keeps going on about how she got...
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review 1: Ed Hartlepool has never worked, nor has his father, or his father's father. There was never any need; there was always money... and plenty of it.But annoying letters begin arriving at Ed's house in the south of France. Letters from accountants, and lawyers, and the bank. Letters ...
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review 1: An interesting odd and strange book. But a fascinating book as well. It starts at the end and goes towards the beginning. Once you realise it you know there won't be a happy ending. You know the end already. This makes you curious about how it came to the end. My history with Pau...
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review 1: I finsihed this last week but have been too busy to come on and make a review! I didn't enjoy this as much as say The Girl on the Landing - which was brilliant in my opinion!A little too much about the financial industry for my liking and not a lot of character development. the ...
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review 1: The writing of this novel was beautiful, everything described in a off-hand sort of way, completely regardless of the depth it withholds.'More than you can say' is a story of life after military service, of love, of crime, of wrongs and misdirection. It is the story of a man who ...
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review 1: I received a copy of this book free from the Good-Reads First-Reads program. "The best estimate we have shows that every five minutes a child goes missing in the UK." ..Mike Sullivan, Crime Editor The Sun, 11 October 2007. This is the premise of the story and essentially what the...
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review 1: I hadn't read any of Paul Torday's books before this one, but I did see the movie 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen', so I thought I had some idea of his style or at least genre. I was wrong. For the first couple of chapters I was still trying to work out where this was going, then be...
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review 1: I was keen to read this as Ed Hartlepool is a subsidiary character in another book by Paul Torday, which I loved, and I wanted to find out more about about him. If I hadn't read 'The Irresistable Inheritance of Wilberforce and bought into that whole world I think I would have be...
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review 1: A novel in four vintages, going backwards from 2006 to 2002, each year describes Francis Wilberforce’s gradual change from work-aholic software developer to wine connoisseur. As he discovers friends and a wife in the ‘upper crust’ he abandons his business and frugal, abstemious l...
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review 1: After the first few chapters I was ready to put the book aside. I felt that the story was really dreary and sad, and I did not like the main characters at all.For some reason i continued anyway. And after the second cut in the story the tone went from sad to increasingly lighthea...
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review 1: Clever stuff. Reads like a dream. This combines complexity with simplicity and farce with gritty reality. Almost impossible to describe. Charlie Summers is a magnificent invention who occupies the pages in a way that no other character I've ever read has. Charlie appears througho...
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review 1: Ooo, this book is creepy. It's starts out as merely odd, and I thought it might even be supernatural, but things get progressively more sinister until they become out and out terrifying and it becomes clear that this isn't a man with unusual powers, but a man with severe and dang...