“You are the most incredibly alive person I’ve ever met,” Fanny tells Linda. They have confidential conversations in the bathtub, in bed, drunk in a powder room, in a cupboard under the stairs. The series’ end, which is the book’s, is told as quickly and simply as on the page, with great elegance. What has been diverting and amusing becomes suddenly moving at the last, shining a light back over all that has gone before. Novelist and screenwriter alike give the last line to the Bolter, but, as if honoring Linda’s request, Mortimer leaves them all laughing.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 30, 2021 17:14 UTC