Another A.N. Wilson

Michael Irwin

  • Who was Oswald Fish? by A.N. Wilson
    Secker, 314 pp, £6.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 436 57606 6

The Sweets of Pimlico, published in 1977, was an assured and attractive first novel. It moved well. The light, fluent, shapely narrative encompassed with equal facility episodes of mannered comedy and passages of simple feeling. Here, plainly, was a writer who combined imagination and literary intelligence: but his prospects were difficult to assess because he was working in a mode which, while fashionable enough to be taken for granted, is both demanding and problematic.

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