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The novel’s perspective widens to encompass the equally tiny worlds of scattered characters connected with the narrator, shifts gear into a dystopian future riven with violence, then loops back to the familiar South London street and a family tragedy. But this observation of minutiae can only go so far. He also becomes a dedicated curtain twitcher, observing (and imagining) the doings of his less rule-abiding neighbours. During the interchangeable days, his attention is drawn to the neighbourhood’s previously unnoticed trees and topography. Arranged in four parts, it initially details the telescoping of the narrator’s world to the few streets around the home he shares with his husband. Though its theme is the confinement of the Covid lockdown, Philip Hensher’s shape-shifting, sometimes perplexing novel ranges far and wide. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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