Stop what you’re doing and bury yourself in the 60 enticing pages of Helen DeWitt’s latest, The English Understand Wool.
It’s a story with all the looping twists and turns of a Jackson Pollock spaghetti Bolognese, so I won’t spoil it with too much explanation. In any case our heroine would likely consider this a bit of a faux pas.
All I will say is that it was the talk of the literary town in summer last year (you can find the TLS article here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-english-understand-wool-helen-dewitt-the-last-samurai-reread-lee-konstantinou-book-review-heather-cass-white/) and I couldn’t put it down.
Rupert Swallow 