A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

I just LOVED this book! It is the third book from John Boyne that I have read and I have not been disappointed in any of them.  This one was very different. So smart, clever and surprising!  It's a bit of a page-turner.
This is a book about writers, specifically, novelists, and I loved that aspect of it.  John Boyne is a fabulous writer but I am sure he grapples with the issues in this book.  So he writes a novel about a truly despicable novelist and he makes you HATE him. But I don't know that John Boyne really hates him. He explains his behavior from the point of view of another novelist.
The plot is so good, there are twists and turns and Boyne combines fictional and "real" writers in the story, having them interact with each other in such interesting ways. I began to wonder who was the "real" author and who was fictional.
The Washington Post review of this book is great.  Here is a link to that.