![]() ![]() ![]() The second was that The Rings of Saturn isn't an account of a summer's hike down the Suffolk coast. The first was that many of the people I'd assumed had read Sebald actually hadn't. Over the next 24 hours I learned two things. And sure enough, as my train clattered and swayed across the shrinking peatlands, I found myself asking where this reluctant German had been all my life. Billed as an account of several days spent walking the Suffolk coast – territory I have known and loved since childhood – it ought to make perfect reading for the journey home to East Anglia that evening. Someone to read in hospital, if and when the time came.īut something about Self's enthusiasm persuaded me to buy The Rings of Saturn that lunchtime. So until I heard Will Self praising his work on the Today programme, he was simply a name on my to-do list. ![]()
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