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“... but has some nice touches, which I assume are present in the Spanish original as well as in Sonia Soto’s translation. On entering Mrs Eagleton’s house, Seldom and the narrator can ‘hear, like a muffled heartbeat, the stealthy to and fro of a clock’s pendulum’. When the plane bringing the narrator to Britain begins its descent into ...”

“... It’s easy to feel that life leaves too many traces or too few, scarcely ever the right amount: either fingerprints everywhere or total erasure. In such a mood your memory itself becomes a double agent, and you may be ready, like the hero of Orson Welles’s Mr Arkadin, to hire a private eye to explore your own past or, like the hero of Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas, to welcome the devil as your research assistant ...”