Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Yes, I thought ofg Our Mutual Friend but thought that the river might have been a little, well, urbanised over the last 150 years.

I've got a cheeky week in Cornwall next week. I'm going to read some Hardy. The glw, bless her, is dedicating the week to reading poetry
Poetry? Who reads poetry in this day and age?

Mind you, Hardy's hardly a bag of lols. Although Jude got so relentlessly depressing that it went through the other side and became funny.