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“... a similar attempt. If he will not be called a historical novelist, could he be a mystery writer? Kerry McSweeny, in Four Contemporary Novelists, quotes from Fowles’s story ‘The Enigma’, in which characters complain that they are trapped in a detective story which is not going to end up ‘with everything explained’, though perhaps if their story ...”

“... All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The second part, at least, of Tolstoy’s celebrated dictum is borne out by Angus Wilson’s fiction, which deals largely in families, and this with a rich diversity through a long series of books. Sir Angus shuffles the cards brilliantly, but Unhappy Families remains the name of the pack ...”