That Wilting Flower
Hilary Mantel: The Lure of the Unexplained, 24 January 2008
Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained
edited by Una McGovern.
Chambers, 760 pp., £35, October 2007,978 0 550 10215 7 Show More
edited by Una McGovern.
Chambers, 760 pp., £35, October 2007,
“... What an enticing prospect: A-Z elucidation, or at least the admission in print that most of life’s pressing questions are never answered. But won’t all the entries begin with ‘W’? Where has youth gone? Why dost thou lash that whore? Why are you looking at me like that? And of course the question that trails us from playgroup to dementia ward: well, if you will go on like that, what else did you expect? But of course we’re not dealing with that kind of unexplained ... ”
