“The problem with this is that for all the frantic antics, it’s not really funny very often.”
Andrew Sean Greer decided to write a “charm novel” like those (he says) of Gerald Durrell and Stella Gibbons. Did he succeed? What do you think?
Me on Villa Coco:
In Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer, an enthusiastic young American rocks up at the Italian villa of an eccentric baroness with (almost) comic results
