[fantasyfan]

When I read the descriptions of the landscapes, the buildings, towns and the various characters Fermor meets. I was immediately impressed with the way a sense of immediacy strikes home. There is a vivid sense of events unfolding and of the swirl and eddies of life itself as well as its still pools. And, of course, all is moderated by that dual narrative structures created by the inter-relationship between the young Fermor and the more deeply mature man he became.

It is quite an amazing book.