Okay, so the end was just the nifty trick of wrapping everything up. Sayers was definitely worth reading (thanks Eden!), and I look forward to reading more of her work in my lifetime (I'm not sure about immediately).
There's not much for me to add. I like her use of names as indicators of personality (whimsy, freak, etc.). I always like it when authors do that; it gives characters a more representative and universal standing in my mind rather than isolated fictions. Also, (not to harp on this) having studied a bit on how WWI affected people--mutism, hysteria, shell shock, etc.--I was really interested in the brief glimpse of that again in Freke's waiting room.
Finally, I was doing a bit of looking at the whole Wimsey series and ran across this, rather nonsensically tied, link on bathing in the U.K. that I found both educational and amusing.
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Rather than edit and re-send my post to you'll, I'll just comment. Sayers had quite an interesting life. Secret pregnancy, scorned love, the whole nine yards--read her relatively short biography on wikipedia. How is there not a movie about her life?
(Eden, the follow-up to our smash hit John & Fanny?)
Its kind of scary some of the things about bathing they had to educate people on in that article. I would hope most of that would be common sense and not needing a how-to guide. Where do you find these things, Sarah?
We so need to write that screenplay. i plan to read the official biography of her life one of these days. she is fabulous. love her. want to write like her. :)
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