A dreamer’s storytelling son reworks his father’s life in Ferris’s daring and very funny latestAny novelist is fiercely impelled to give their story a shape, to mould a satisfying journey along which ends are tied and consequences paid out. And yet par…
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod review – polite society’s rude awakening
Lady Chatterley’s Lover and US politics collide in an enjoyable widescreen novel comprising real and fictional characters over half a centuryAlison MacLeod’s arresting new novel begins with the ostensible serendipity of two historic triumphs: within th…