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A delightful sequel
- Published: 8 Oct 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Sequels are commonplace, but not necessarily by the same authors. They are penned shortly after the original becomes popular, or long afterwards. Alexander Dumas waited two decades before his follow-up to The Three Musketeers. More than one writer had been tapped to pick up where Alistair Maclean and Ian Fleming left off.
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, 330 pp, 2012 Faber and Faber paperback. Available at Asia Books and leading bookshops, 350 baht.
When the same scrivener writes sequels, there's no question about a difference in style. Yet another writer has to imitate that of the first one to the extent possible, not always successfully. Like a bank note counterfeiter, either his imitation is undetectable or he's nabbed.
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