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Guardian: Rediscovering Elizabeth Taylor – the brilliant novelist
[The Guardian (blog)] - She is, as Philip Hensher describes her, "one of the hidden treasures of the English novel" – or as this excellent article in the Atlantic puts it, "best known for not being better known". It was an exquisite cruelty of fate that in the very year that
The world in a single street
www.theage.com.au
[The Age] - It seems, both in its resounding successes and its residual failures, to have something in common with both Philip Hensher's King of the Badgers and Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child. It's as if British fiction at its most ambitious and
Guardian: For the record
[The Guardian] - A review of Philip Hensher's new novel, Scenes From Early Life ("A boyhood of war games and sweet yoghurt", New Review) was accidentally listed under memoir rather than fiction. Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers' Editor, the Observer, Kings Place
Philip Hensher: There are some crime stories that will never reveal their ending
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - A knife is drawn; a window is smashed. A woman runs away from her bewildered partner, standing, arms held wide apart, in a park. A lightning bolt hits a house in which three unhappy people live, killing the unhappiest of the three.
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