They are both bright people and enjoy philosophising with each other, but as the relationship develops there is also a good deal of flirting. They exchange a few polite, brief emails, but soon come to realise they enjoy each other’s virtual company and their friendship blossoms. In an attempt to cancel her subscription to a magazine she inadvertently emails Leo Leike. This is exactly what happens to Emmi Rothner. In our hectic lives dominated by constant electronic traffic, it is quite easy to misspell an email address or hammer out a message and send it to the wrong recipient. Listening to it again and its sequel on Valentine’s Day, I couldn’t see why I wouldn’t read the source material (albeit in translation).
What better way to do so than with a romance.ĭo you remember Valentine’s Day? I urged you all to listen to the Afternoon Play on Radio 4 and told the story of my wireless encounter last year with David Tennant? The radio version of Love Virtually was a beautifully performed adaptation of Daniel Glattauer’s incredibly popular book. Having just finished Red Riding 1974by David Peace, possibly the bleakest book I’ve read for some time, if not the bleakest book known to mankind (although a friend who is reading it on her skiing holiday after seeing the review, sent me a Facebook message saying “bleak is too nice a word for this book”), I was in need of an antidote, I needed to cleanse my palate. No philosophical platitudes from her, all she says is “Just what you need” In my case she was bang on. In the top left corner of the cover is a quote by author Wendy Holden. This may be a bit undignified because I am likely to gush somewhat about this book and its sequel.
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