A Case Of Knives

I also often find McWilliams prose too dense. But not with this book. It suits the character and story perfectly. A really great rendering of a voice. Not a story at all improbable - hardly newsworthy. But the more terrifying because of that.

Rather like Iris Murdoch in the kind of people she writes about, though they are more obviously part of a real world in which we ourselves participate - they are similarly dirty to Murdoch's characters, but less abstractly so - Candia McWilliam is here also every bit as clever as Iris M, and this extremely elevated trash fiction will easily and happily while away a few hours.