Destined for trouble
t’s easy, sometimes, to read too quickly, to be pulled along by plot or driven by dramatic action. What a pleasure to slow down, as you must when the novel you’re reading is by Marilynne Robinson. is the last book in the quartet that began with the superb, Pulitzer Prize-winning and is completed by and . But there is is set before the other three, which centre on the Reverend John Ames; Robert Boughton, his closest friend and fellow pastor, and father to Jack; and Ames’ much younger wife, Lila. Each novel can be relished separately but there is an added richness in knowing them all.
