I could follow the lengthy descriptions of church architecture more easily because I love to visit old churches but even so, it was a lot to take in.Įventually, I let go of trying to understand the detail of bells and church and focus on the meaning behind them. At the start, I was a bit overwhelmed by a tide of technical details of bell-ringing that I couldn’t follow and which, especially in the audiobook version, became tedious. I didn’t always find it an easy book to read. ‘The Nine Tailors’ is a story lacquered with lots of layers of imagery and inquiry but, at its heart, I think it’s about Sayers’ love of the Fens and its people and her understanding, expressed through Wimsey, of her arms-length relationship to it. I got all those things but they weren’t really what the book was about. I wasn’t expecting anything more than some colourful scenery, a bit of wit and an engaging puzzle. I was curious to see Peter Wimsey without Harriet Vane as a balance. I went into ‘The Nine Tailors’ expecting a well-written golden-age mystery.
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