A Suitable Boy is a wise love story (usually not my genre) and an effective historical novel (if 1952 counts). And there's nothing like getting to page 1000 in a book and seeing that you still have 475 pages to go! Here are a couple of (brief) comments I wrote about it at one time or another. I remember asking you, Jonathan, how you managed to read it on a train to Cyprus without getting the pages soggy.