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In The Grip Of The Plot

Ian Sansom A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by John Irving Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp.547 T he opening sentence of a John Irving novel is set like a gin trap; it clamps to your wrist, or......

More Than Half Way To The Movie

Sophia Watson THE LAZARUS CHILD by Robert Mawson Bantam, £15.99, pp. 346 R emember The Horse Whisperer, the book that had every hopeful author dream- ing of the big time, of the......