Not Telling
Ronan Bennett, 23 September 1993
The Blue Afternoon
by William Boyd.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 324 pp., £14.99, September 1993,1 85619 366 7 Show More
by William Boyd.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 324 pp., £14.99, September 1993,
“... is primarily a storyteller, and has never been shy of letting us know it. In The New Confessions John James Todd speaks confidentially to the reader: ‘Anyway, I digress. Let me tell you something about this enterprise upon which we have both – you and I – embarked. Here is the story of a life. My life ... If on occasion I have used some innocent ... ”