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DazTheSlug Mar 2022 11:39am, 3 Mar 2022 2,269 posts	0 DazTheSlug Wind In The Willows?
LindsD Mar 2022 11:45am, 3 Mar 2022 53,260 posts	0 LindsD They read The Guardian, so decent level of comprehension
McGoohan Mar 2022 11:50am, 3 Mar 2022 51,057 posts	0 McGoohan WitW has not aged well IMHO - it has a very unpleasant undertone re: the place of the working classes and the 'rightful' position of the upper classes.
Fields Mar 2022 12:06pm, 3 Mar 2022 3,232 posts	0 Fields To Serve Them All My Days I found to be a very uplifting book. The main character is fairly sound politically too
Diogenes Mar 2022 12:32pm, 3 Mar 2022 67,649 posts	0 Diogenes How about some English books set in Germany? The Innocent, by Ian McEwan, or Out Of The Shelter, by David Lodge come to mind. Or, conversely, The Rings Of Saturn by the German writer W. G. Sebald, which is set in Norfolk.
Sharkie Mar 2022 12:50pm, 3 Mar 2022 19,480 posts	0 Sharkie McGoo - Have you ever read Wild Wood by Jan Needle? It's a very different (and excellent) take on Wind in the Willows - I love WitW, there are many lovely things about it but absolutely agree with you too.
fetcheveryone Mar 2022 12:51pm, 3 Mar 2022 27,307 posts	0 fetcheveryone Next I’m lining up American Pastoral by Philip Roth. I read American Rust several years ago and seem to remember I quite enjoyed it. I've just noticed that American Rust is by a completely different Philip
Fields Mar 2022 12:51pm, 3 Mar 2022 3,233 posts	0 Fields Actually maybe scrub my suggestion, I was forgetting the Germany connection as the two world wars (so far) are important plot points
Diogenes Mar 2022 1:02pm, 3 Mar 2022 67,652 posts	0 Diogenes Yes, I suppose my first two are both WW2 related, so maybe not such a good idea.
McGoohan Mar 2022 1:18pm, 3 Mar 2022 51,058 posts	0 McGoohan That sounds very intriguing Sharkie - I'll see if they have that in the library

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