Somehow, I don’t know how, I stopped reading William Boyd over the past decade. Was it the unappealing Armadillo, or the tedious Nat Tate, or the self-indulgent essays in Bamboo? At any rate, Boyd is back with a new publisher, a new novel and his old form.

Restless is that rare pleasure, a story that grips you from the first page and doesn’t let go until the last. Ruth, an irritable single mother and Oxford graduate who is wasting her life teaching English as a second language, has always been told by her own mother, Sally, that

Literary Review

Nov 2006

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Amanda Craig

Distant Echoes of Glory

At Home with Matisse

Getting Pantis in a Twist

Canines on the Loose

Sugar & Spice

Arise, Sir David

The Frightful Toil

All About India

In a Perpetual State of Amorous Engagement

Applause, Please

After Birth

A Monumental Woman

Endgame

Seasonal Affairs

Gay Scenes

Middle-Class Anxieties

Nobble Concerns

The Glasgow Boy

Rough Paradise

From Nagasaki to 9/11

Urban Degeneration

Wild Justice

Poles Apart

Secrets and Spies