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Not Forgetting the Whale
by John Ironmonger
Not Forgetting the Whale is set in a remote Cornish village peopled with loveable eccentrics. One morning, an investment analyst washes up at the beach. He's fled London, thinking he's brought down his entire bank and he has narrowly escaped drowning. He stays on in the village and becomes instrumental in helping them to navigate an upcoming crisis.
At the back of this book is a list entitled "If you enjoyed Not Forgetting the Whale" you might like these books" and for the most part they are books that other people rave about and I don't particuarly like, eg [b:The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry|13227454|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)|Rachel Joyce|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1335816092l/13227454._SY75_.jpg|18156927], [b:A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian|828387|A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian|Marina Lewycka|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327935785l/828387._SY75_.jpg|4240781], [b:A Man Called Ove|18774964|A Man Called Ove|Fredrik Backman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405259930l/18774964._SY75_.jpg|21619954], [b:the storied life of a j fikry|50242795|the storied life of a j fikry|Gabrielle Zevin|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|25694131]. Essentially I am not a fan of cutesy feel good books and this teetered right on the cusp.
What saved it is the timing. It's a book about a major flu pandemic and I read it while in lockdown for Covid 19. This gave it relevance and grounded it in plausible events and that saved the book for me. Really it was a 3 star book but that elevated it to 4 stars.
However I am a curmudgeon - I think I wrote a variation of that in my review for all the books listed above - so there is every chance you will like this more than I did.
At the back of this book is a list entitled "If you enjoyed Not Forgetting the Whale" you might like these books" and for the most part they are books that other people rave about and I don't particuarly like, eg [b:The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry|13227454|The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)|Rachel Joyce|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1335816092l/13227454._SY75_.jpg|18156927], [b:A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian|828387|A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian|Marina Lewycka|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327935785l/828387._SY75_.jpg|4240781], [b:A Man Called Ove|18774964|A Man Called Ove|Fredrik Backman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405259930l/18774964._SY75_.jpg|21619954], [b:the storied life of a j fikry|50242795|the storied life of a j fikry|Gabrielle Zevin|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|25694131]. Essentially I am not a fan of cutesy feel good books and this teetered right on the cusp.
What saved it is the timing. It's a book about a major flu pandemic and I read it while in lockdown for Covid 19. This gave it relevance and grounded it in plausible events and that saved the book for me. Really it was a 3 star book but that elevated it to 4 stars.
However I am a curmudgeon - I think I wrote a variation of that in my review for all the books listed above - so there is every chance you will like this more than I did.