Lead Review

  • Book: Etta and Otto and Russell and James
  • Location: Canada, Saskatchewan
  • Author: Emma Hooper

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There has been a spate of books about older folk going wandering. The 100 year old man, Harold Fry and this is another one in the “genre”. Did I enjoy it? I certainly struggled with the composition, but it is tender and thoughtful and that outweighed the unusual writing style. Amusingly the Financial Times calls this genre ‘elderly-escaper-lit’.

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