A Bottle in the Smoke - A. N Wilson

Currently reading 'A Bottle in the Smoke' (1990) by A. N Wilson.
This is my first A. N Wilson.

I've only read chapter 1 so far - half of it last night and the rest of it this morning before I got out of bed.
Already I'm gripped. So gripped that I had to go online and find out more about the author. That's when I found out that 'A Bottle in the Smoke' is a sequel to 'Incline Our Hearts' (1989).

It's too late now. 1. I don't have a copy of Incline Our Hearts (1989)
2. I'm already caught up in the sequel.

My favourite quote from chapter 1 of 'A Bottle in the Smoke' comes from p19:
"It's not an accident that human beings provide for themselves the narcotic of drudgery. Those of us who have opted out must pay the consequences. [...] I thought that just being me would keep me going, not realising that for much of the time this is precisely the thing one most needs to escape."