Same here. Just finisted Coe's Number 11 too and I like it too, including the strange last chapter.
I also have his "children"-book The Broken Mirror, while his CD 9th And 13th is also fun.
Too bad not all of his novels are translated into Dutch (I have 10 by now), so I might go for some of the older originals too.
It's always welcome that Coe includes some musical subjects in his novels. This time he has a chapter about a song called Sink And Swim, which appears to be an existing tune by Louise Le May:
And the chapter The Cristal Garden was inspired by the song Madrigals Of The Rose Angel: 2. The Crystal Garden And A Coda from Harold Budd's first solo-recording The Pavillion Of Dreams:
Now I started reading The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale
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