Descent into Oddness
Dinah Birch: Peter Rushforth’s long-awaited second novel, 6 January 2005
Pinkerton’s Sister
by Peter Rushforth.
Scribner, 729 pp., £18.99, September 2004,0 7432 5235 7 Show More
by Peter Rushforth.
Scribner, 729 pp., £18.99, September 2004,
“... can turn into an addiction. The connection between this and other kinds of abuse is something that Peter Rushforth has been thinking about for a long time. In 1979 he published his first novel, Kindergarten, a short and desolate work which won the Hawthornden Prize. A meditation on ‘Hansel and Gretel’, the grimmest of tales, Kindergarten describes a ... ”
