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Fractured Middle-class Manners

D J. Taylor THE WILD by Esther Freud Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp. 256 L ike her first novel, Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud's fourth work of fiction is built on the observations of......

Pursued By The Furies

Jane Gardam THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth Cape, £16.99, pp. 400 W hat ish my nation?' asks the drunken, disillusioned Macmorris in Henry V after Agincourt. `Ish a villain and a......