Not a bus book.

Learned that the hard way. I had it as audio, eleven days into a fourteen day loan, listening on the top deck of the 43, and I had to take the headphones out and look out of the window for the rest of the journey and then walk the last bit home.

So a warning: do not do this one in public. Do it at home, in a chair, with nothing else on. I ended up finishing it in the bath with the tablet balanced on the taps, which is a fire risk and also the only time I could be certain I wouldn't be interrupted.

The narration is very plain, which is right. No swelling music, no doing anything clever with the sad parts. Eight hours or thereabouts and I did it at 1x the whole way, which for me is basically ceremonial; I put everything at 1.4 minimum.

Eight. I put a hold on it again about a month later and then cancelled it, because I knew perfectly well I wasn't going to listen to it a second time, I just wanted it to be there.