PositiveThe Financial TimesFlanders acknowledges that hers is a western-dominated narrative — and one that perhaps ends too quickly, jumping swiftly from \'I\' to \'Y\' in its own alphabetical chapter headings. Much of the digital age, which has revolutionised how we access and order information, is left untouched ... nonetheless a charming repository of idiosyncrasy, a love letter to literacy that rightly delights in alphabetisation’s exceptions as much as its rules. And while the alphabet may have lost its novelty since Balbi’s day, Flanders shows us that it hasn’t lost its charm.
