A novel of great middlebrow worth, with observation of character and subtle points about the use of virtue in the sublunary world; but also the background half of any novel set in Ankh-Morpork. No, really; there's Mrs. Cake and an abbess saving the world from a saint; mutually rebounding interests of class and race; and Greebo, slightly. Is this all London, or all England, or what?
And yet in the course of whatever passes for time in Heaven and Hell, all would be resolved, since the good deserve that the bad should be forgiven, the nature of goodness being to love.
It's not that I think this is a bad or pretentious novel; but it does point up how much Pratchett is a moralist.
ISBN: 1559212500
So wrote clew in Fiction (20th c.). | TrackBack