Kiss me, Hardy
Humphrey Carpenter, 15 November 1984
Watson’s Apology
by Beryl Bainbridge.
Duckworth, 222 pp., £8.95, October 1984,0 7156 1935 7 Show More
by Beryl Bainbridge.
Duckworth, 222 pp., £8.95, October 1984,
“... of something else.’ So it’s rather a blow to Barney to discover he’s a reincarnation of Thomas Hardy. The discovery comes about at a séance organised by Sharon in her bookshop, where, under the influence of a hypnotist, Barney finds himself recounting, in the first person, Hardy’s memory of watching the hanging of Martha Brown at Dorchester when ... ”