Jane Urquhart: THE STONE CARVERS

Jane Urquhart's *The Stone Carvers* inspired spirited discussion. Everyone appreciated the writing's intelligence, craft, and heartfelt aesthetic emotion, but there were cavils as to the "Disney ending" and the love stories that, at least to some, seemed thrown in as a sop to some kind of generic "novel reader". As discussions zinged around the table, I believe the idea of a field trip to Vimy came up – exciting!

Phoebe