Divided Kingdom

Just finished reading Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson, a few of whose novels I've previously read and enjoyed. This one's about a possible future where the government separates people into 4 personality types: sanguine, melancholic, choleric, and phlegmatic. The idea is that it will stabilise society, by placing these 4 types of people in 4 separate parts of what used to be the United Kingdom. It's through the eyes of one person who was separated from his parents at the age of 8, and what happens to him from then on. It was fascinating and creepy, as his other books have often been.

To find out more, check out www.dividedkingdom.co.uk and you can find out which personality type you are.

Graham Greene's The End of the Affair waits beside the bed for me to finish Housekeeping (the book not the hoovering).