I have just received these two books:
J by Howard Jacobson
Both: Jonathan Cape 2014
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
(Later edit: see comment stream below)
DES LEWIS GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWS
I have just received these two books:
J by Howard Jacobson
Both: Jonathan Cape 2014
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
(Later edit: see comment stream below)
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.