This utterly divine book night not be everybody’s cup of tea but if you’re looking for something delightfully different to hide at the bottom of the garden with this is it.
Tibo Krovic is the mayor of the title, and he is good, but he is still a he. The town over which he presides is called Dot, a quaint little place in a forgotten part of the Baltic. Although there’s not really much to preside over. A big day is writing a fraudulent rude letter to the mayor of neighbouring Umlaut insulting councillors’ wives. Mostly what Mayor Krovic does is ponder what life might be like were his luscious secretary Mrs Agnethe Stopak inclined to look upon him in a favourable way, romantically speaking. of course there is the matter of or Stopak to consider but he’s having a very intense affair with a large amount of lager down at The Three Crowns. In fact, the love of a good man like Mayor Krovic is exactly what Agnethe is looking for. Unfortunately, he just can’t quite bring himself to do anything about it and a girl won’t wait forever for or Right, not this girl anyway. Sometimes, as Mayor Krovic finds out, one day is all it takes to snatch away the possibility of happy ever after.
You might wonder how a tale like this could possibly take nearly 500 pages to tell and the truth is, it’s not your average fare, but as the narrator says: “This story is much more about the telling than the things that happen in it,” so if you can get your head around that then you are in for a delicious treat.
Part comedy, part fantasy, part good old-fashioned love story, The Good Mayor examines the vast differences between men and women, the ones who actually love each other, and the stupid things that keep them apart. This is the debut novel from Andrew Nicoll, a Scottish lumberjack who became a political correspondent not a predictable career choice and this is not, despite what you might assume early on, a predictable book.
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