Originally Posted by
treadigraph
I'm reading volume 1 at bedtime at the moment, fair whacks me out holding it up... vol 2 is no lightweight either...
A story worth telling is a story worth telling well... in this case it took them 1200 pages!
IIRC Ania explains how this came about in the preface to part 2. I remember having finished part 1 and wondering 'what happened next?'. Fortunately part 2 emerged in due course.