A Ladder to the Sky

After a few of stinkers I finally found a good book: A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne.  It's a brilliant novel about plagiarism, ambition and creativity. Writers often write about the act of writing and publishing as its obviously a world they know well and this is a great book with some fantastic characters. It's told from several points of view but with a continuous narrative and always with the central figure of Maurice Swift. 9/10