A book for the beach: Modern Ranch Living by Mark Poirier

Believable characters and an underlying positivity make this tale of two mixed-up Arizonans' broiling summer a perfect sunbathing companion

My holiday reading usually begins in one of three places. There's the shelf at home where I keep all the books I've bought over the years but never got round to reading. There's the folder in which I stuff cuttings of book reviews that whet my appetite, often from way back whenever, prompting an online search or visit to a secondhand shop. And then there's the cupboard at the Guardian/Observer offices where spare copies of all the books submitted for review are kept.

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