
I
am delighted to welcome Cally Taylor - whose debut novel, Heaven Can
Wait, Helen reviewed just yesterday - to Five Minutes Peace. Take it
away, Cally!
When
Keris asked me to write a guest post about my five favourite books to
curl up I had to have a long, hard think. I know what my five
favourite books of all time are (although I do switch a couple around
occasionally) but ‘books to curl up with' is a completely
different issue! To me a book you curl up with is akin to chocolate,
a log fire or a deep bubble bath – something that allows you to
escape from the real world for a while. Here they are...
High
Fidelity by Nick Hornby
In
a nutshell: It’s about a man who, when his girlfriend leaves
him, rakes through his past relationships to try and understand where
it all went wrong.
Why
I love it: I think High Fidelity was the first book - written by
a man about relationships - I’d read that wasn’t from a pervert’s
point of view (Lolita by Nabakov) or obsessed with sex (anything by
Henry Miller). There’s something so everyday-man about Rob, the
main character in High Fidelity. He could be a friend of mine, or even
someone I’ve dated and for that reason he’s very real. I loved
his obsession with music, his constant list-making, his flawed, funny
personality and couldn’t help but root for him all the way through.