A book with covers!

How is this a whole real book already

Should I persevere with this? I am finding it impenetrable but I know many people have loved it

There’s no single moment in contemporary fiction that comes close, for me, to this, from AS Byatt’s Still Life - after a shocking, sudden death, the novel turns in on itself, a sort of rupture that makes perfect sense. It’s obvious now that I should have written to her to say thank you

Hilary Mantel. “As a novelist, I ask if people cry for just one reason.”