The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford*****

I have tried to read this book three times now and have failed to finish it every time. Yet I would have to say that it is one of my all time favourites.
Beautifully written (I always want to take notes, maybe I will one day) it tells of the complications that exist beneath the surface of the aparently perfect lives of two wealthy couples who spend their time travelling from one posh hotel in Europe to another in the early 20th Century. Everything is not what it seems. I reckon that I have been unable to finish it for the same reason that I could not eat everything I was offered at Il Caldora restaurant in Pacentro (in Abruzzo); it was absolutley delicious but there is only so much you can eat.