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The Plot Against Pepys, by James and Ben Long, is featured in the August issue of Open Letters Monthly in an extensive review by Thurlow and Zach Truman, another father-son duo:
"As thoroughly researched and engrossingly told an addition to the broad roll of Pepys literature as the reading world has seen in many a long and fallow month. The Longs are to be congratulated for not only delving deep into the depths of Restoration politics but emerging with a thrilling story to tell...
(The Plot Against Pepys) is the next best thing to stepping directly into Pepys’ complicated world just as attacks from all quarters were beginning to make it come apart... (The Longs) tell their own chosen story with a verve even non-specialist readers will find infectious."
The Thurmans draw from a quote from Claire Tomalin's 2002 biography of Pepys in which she suggests that Pepys' then untapped account of his wrongful imprisonment and trial "has all the raw materials for a novel by Defoe."
"Lacking as we are a modern Defoe," the review concludes, "we should all be grateful for James and Ben Long: their account, though perhaps no Moll Flanders, will do just fine."
It is a cold, damp and dark November night. The village smells of mist and woodsmoke. The woodburner has been going all day, although it doesn't make my fingers any warmer, up here in the studio. We have been given our first brace of pheasant of the season, and Andy has been in the dank, twilit yard, 'dealing' with them. Sounds of chopping and rinsing. I would have 'dealt with them' myself, but I have not stopped working at one thing or another for weeks now. I have been out of the village twice this month, each time to the woods, as posted previously. Can't remember the last time I went to any town or shops - not including the Co-op down the road. Which is almost a shop.
To anyone who has visited the Hovel and marvelled at my neat and tidy workspace, I display to the whole world, my recent shame...piles of STUFF everywhere as I combine finishing a Christmas tag order/doing an illustration for deadline which crept up on me while doing aforementioned tag order/packing up Etsy and shop orders/trying to find a spare moment to design two more Christmas cards, and update this poor little blog, the latter of which I seem to be achieving anyway. Some readers may recognise one or two things in my little heaps...
I may be surrounded by miscellaneous THINGS but many of them are things from lovely friends and everywhere I look I spot something which makes me smile (Tara and my SOSF partner...am saving your packs for the calm after the storm, I am a chronic hoarder, I'm sorry...)
My table! where did it go?
(Note to my Hallowe''een SOSF partner - see that chair in the bottom right hand corner? With the bluey picture on? Under that is my lovely lovely box, you can just see it peeking out beneathwhich I keep in sight (usually) to spur me on...)
The only peaceful area, waiting to be packed up tonight and sent down to Your Life Your Style, which opens today in Winchester - good luck to her and all who sail in her!
I will resurface later in week when things are more - manageable. And tidy. Must have some tidy. Tidy is good.
trumans or thurmans?