![]() ![]() ![]() A timely plot involves Muslim ‘fighters’, jihadi brides, and the families they’ve left behind in Britain there’s also a Muslim home secretary whose role is compromised in this plot. (2018, first published 2017) This was far better. I found them to be a self-indulgent bunch of shallow narcissists. ![]() Louche socialites and some explicit sex should add up to a more engaging narrative, but it didn’t gel for me. Years later he’s involved in a homosexual scandal which haunts his son, whose life is the subject of the rest of the novel. David Sparsholt is first seen as a 17-year-old ‘new man’ at an Oxford college in 1939, lusted after by a group of Evelyn Waugh types. (2018 first published 2017) I read The Line of Beauty years ago and enjoyed it, but this one I struggled with. After two posts on recent non-fiction, here’s a quick summary of recent fiction reading.Īlan Hollinghurst, The Sparsholt Affair Picador pb. ![]()
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