Sophia Watson
Fools And Monsters
VERY FEW TABOOS remain in our irreligious, self-centred society. There is one, however, which still sends a shiver of righteousness down the spine of the most hardened renegade - child abuse. The idea that any adult should want a sexual relationshp with a child is abhorrent, and when the child is under that person's care the crime is even greater.
So it is very brave of Zoe Heller to write her second novel on ths subject. Brave and, in the way she approaches it, clever. The adult in question is a forty-two-year-old teacher, who enters into an affair with a pupil. More interestingly, the teacher is a woman and her
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Delighted to make my debut in @Lit_Review with a review of Philip Short's heavyweight new bio, Putin: His Life and Times
(Yes, it's behind a paywall, but newspapers and magazines need to earn money too...)
https://literaryreview.co.uk/vlad-the-invader
'As we examined more and more data from the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters ... we were amazed to find that there is almost never a case for permanently moving people out of the contaminated area after a big nuclear accident.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying
'This problem has dogged Labour’s efforts to become the "natural party of government", a sobriquet which the Conservatives have acquired over decades, despite their far less compelling record of achievement.'
Charles Clarke on Labour's civil wars.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/comrade-versus-comrade