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“... helpful if Forster had been eaten up by bitterness or destroyed by his thwarted creative energies. Damon Galgut’s bio-fictional portrait of the novelist is too scrupulous to assign him either fate, but the book isn’t written in a comic spirit and brings the curtain down before the later years, not hinting that Forster actually went on to have a pretty ...”

“... reader to decide which was the lower layer. (The last page might clinch it.) Twenty years later, Damon Galgut’s The Promise has followed this trajectory, with a Booker-shortlisted family narrative that’s also in two minds about its status as a document of historic social change.There’s certainly an element of chronicle in the book, a notation of ...”