What a terrific read! And a book for these troubled times that we find ourselves in.

Magnificent. I loved it.

With heartfelt thanks to Ayisha Malik, Bonnier Books UK and NetGalley for the ARC of This Green and Pleasant Land.

Set in the rural English village of Babel's End the main protagonist Bilal is tasked by his dying mother to build a mosque. The writing style is wonderful, there is great humour and there is also important comment on racism and intolerance. The character development is brilliant, not all the characters are likeable as prejudices emerge when the mosque is proposed. This is an important book, definitely recommend.

Thank you to Zaffre and NetGalley for an early copy of This Green and Pleasant Land.

I really wanted to love this book; I have heard many people talking about it and it was high on my list for 2020 but unfortunately something did not click with me. I read the first 25% and then put it down and had no drive to pick it back up. A few days later I tried to start it again but think perhaps it is not the writing style for me.

I hope that I will start this book again in the future and love it as I had originally hoped (sometimes it is the right book at the wrong time!).