Mistaken or Doomed
Thomas Jones: Barry Unsworth, 12 March 2009
Land of Marvels
by Barry Unsworth.
Hutchinson, 287 pp., £18.99, January 2009,978 0 09 192617 5 Show More
by Barry Unsworth.
Hutchinson, 287 pp., £18.99, January 2009,
“... fast running out of money. His wife, Edith, who is with him in the Middle East, fell instantly in love with the fervour of his ambition on the evening they met, but has since become disillusioned with him. She believes that a woman’s role – because it is the role she desires – is to provide feminine support to a strong man, and her husband is falling ... ”