Good Things
Michael Hofmann, 20 April 1995
Heart’s Journey in Winter
by James Buchan.
Harvill, 201 pp., £14.99, April 1995,9780002730099 Show More
by James Buchan.
Harvill, 201 pp., £14.99, April 1995,
“... the histories of people who love, and who, as a result, find themselves in the wrong lives: Adam Murray in his friend Johnny’s, John Chadwick in his rival William Nelson’s, Richard Verey in absolutely anyone’s but his own, Richard Fisher in that of the American spy Polina Mertz. The governing myth, I think, is Grimm’s. It is the story of the ferryman ... ”