Reading: Checkmate

I was saving Dorothy Dunnett's Checkmate to read on holiday, but then I started it on Thursday night and finished it yesterday and I don't even go away until this afternoon.

I loved it as much as I have loved the others in the series. It had the same mix of playfulness and heartbreak and, after the last two novels which focused mainly on smaller groups, seemed to reassemble almost all the fantastic cast of supporting characters as it drew the complicated web of plot together for the grand finale.

( Spoilers )