Rooms could be companions: Jim Crace
Luke Kennard, 26 April 2018
Alfred Busi, the protagonist of Jim Crace’s new novel, is a songwriter with an enchanting and consoling voice, so celebrated in his home city that, when the book opens, he is about to be immortalised in bronze on its Avenue of Fame. This city, the narrator tartly informs us, is too fond of awarding medals:
It was the lazy habit of the town and had been for several hundred years to...