Not my usual sort of book, but ... it was magnetic. One of those masterfully-written stories where the prose just wash over the reader, where there's a seeming inevitability about how a sentence will end, or which line falls next in a conversation.

I can't pretend to have caught every reference and will delight in the description again sometime, catching new things with each reread I'm sure.
But a remarkable story of a life at once remarkable and ordinary. A real, genuine escape.