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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How to talk to friends whose book you haven’t read

Take a tip from John Betjeman. Plus: foraging etiquette

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

Q. What is the correct thing to say to a writer friend whose book you haven’t read? I buy most friends’ books out of loyalty but there have been so many in the last few months that I can’t think when I will have the time, if ever, to read them.

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