Chapter Five - Arcadia by Iain Pears
I love it when this happens. This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for about 3 years. It's never seemed the right time to read it or I've never felt much like starting it. There's always been other books I've moved to the top of my 'To Be Read' pile ahead of it for one reason or another. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver has suffered a similar fate but for an even longer period of time. I'll get to it eventually! Perhaps I should give it a chance now because it turns out I absolutely adored Arcadia and I wish, now, that I had read it straight away. It is only because of this blog that I have selected it. It was in serious danger of being purged in a charity shop clear out. What a crying shame that would have been. Here's what the 'blurb' says (which is quite helpful since this is quite a complex tale): April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat -- and inste