I have just received these two books:
J by Howard Jacobson
Both: Jonathan Cape 2014
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
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THE DES LEWIS GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEW
'…a veritable living, breathing map of the fantastic fiction that is emerging into the world in these troubled times. '
I have enjoyed these books. Both of them, synchronously, are about ‘what happened, if it happened’, based on the slavish weighing of probabilities by a court judge as a novelist. The default dystopia of all human decision.