Go to this site and type in your favorite author and it supposedly creates a sort of constellation of all similar authors that you might like. I typed in Margot Livesey and got all the usual and predictable suspects: Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, Anthony Powell, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch. The fun is the sort of initial big bang when the names all go flying off the central name and then hover as if thinking and reconsidering...'should Somerset Maugham go here next to A.S. Byatt or over here near Ian McEwan?' And the most pleasing thing was that Proust showed up in the constellation, I am feeling a small glow of accomplishment already. Today Margot Livesey...tomorrow Proust....
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