Gin and tonic in the same kind of bottle on a game drive with very bumpy tracks, car smelt like gin for about a week after!

Watch whatever you’re going to read first maybe, it’s easier to focus on the language if you already understand the plot?

I’d be interested in an update on how you get on with the language if you don’t mind? It might be unexpectedly easy, I once studied Chaucer (Middle English, not old English, but much older than Shakespeare) with a Russian student and when we were reading the text aloud she sounded so much more natural than the English native speakers, maybe older English is closer to Spanish in a way that will be helpful for you with these texts, and I love those language oddities!

What did you think of The Casual Vacancy?

I don’t love it the same way as the potter books, but I read it when it first came out and a couple of times since and it’s like a darker Joanna Trollope to me

I started reading HP with PoA when I was already studying for a literature degree so it wasn’t what sparked my passion for reading but I remember dedicating a day to reading the final book sitting in the sun outside a local pub so clearly. Normally it’s not until I reread a book that I remember where I was when I first read it