Tom Williams
Out of Eden Grove
The World Was All Before Them
By Matthew Reynolds
Bloomsbury Circus 320pp £12.99 order from our bookshop
The World Was All Before Them is concerned with the seemingly ordinary lives of a couple in their mid-twenties, who have recently settled down in a small town: Philip is a doctor who has joined a local surgery, while Sue works at an art gallery in central London, an hour’s commute away.
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