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*Robert Liddell’s novel has been called the best novel ever written about Oxford. It celebrates ordinary social irresponsibility, giving in to comfort and kindness, and deplores the cruelty carried out when people want to save face or impress their community. It’s about a celebrated scandal of the time, when a woman who had married extremely well consigned her elderly mother to the workhouse out of parsimony. It proceeds from delicious light comedy to terrible tragedy with a sure step. I think only a gay man would have had the patience to observe all these character types, and render them with such unforgettable, catty clarity.
*Review by Philip Hensher
Novelist and critic whose books include The Friendly Ones, The Northern Clemency and To Battersea Park
Genre: Literary Fiction
*Review by Philip Hensher
Novelist and critic whose books include The Friendly Ones, The Northern Clemency and To Battersea Park
Genre: Literary Fiction
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