As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt

I really liked the setting, a tiny island called Viscos – the perfect setting for what takes place. I liked the concept behind The Devil and Miss Prym. Coelho is good when I need a good cleansing. I find them quite refreshing compared to the stuff I usually read. Coelho’s novels are quite spiritual and have a lot of moral fibre and aren’t to everyone’s taste. The third novel, Elven Minutes won’t be read for a few months. I figured it was bargain and if the novel’s turned out to be rubbish the loss was negligible. Years ago I got a set of three Coelho novels for about 75p from an Oxfam shop. I’ve read one other Coelho novel, Veronika Decides To Die and enjoyed it. This was my first time reading The Devil and Miss Prym. The people of Viscos knew that was normal behaviour amongst old people: they sit dreaming of the past and their youth, they look out at a world in which they no longer play a part and try to find something to talk to the neighbours about. A fascinating meditation on the human soul, The Devil and Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good and evil within us all, and our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.įor almost fifteen years, old Berta had spent every day sitting outside her front door. In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho’s unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover.

His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars.īurying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village – Miss Prym. A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.Ī stranger arrives in the small mountain village.

As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt