Andrew O’Hagan’s social satire is drawing comparisons to “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and being touted as a perceptive “state of the nation” tome.
The weather this spring in London has been intermittently bright and warm, but the public mood remains steadily overcast. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement last month that a general election will be held on July 4 did little to lift Britons out of their funk. Those on the right wonder: What has it all been— these 14 years of Tory government? Those on the left welcome Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer as an agent of change, yet he excites no one. Where is post-Brexit U.K.
Like the author, protagonist Campbell Flynn is a native of working-class Glasgow, Scotland. He’s a celebrity art historian — a job description that only a Brit can pull off. Think Simon Schama, but younger. Flynn has risen to stratospheric social heights thanks to his intellect, his gumption and his alliances, in particular his marriage to Elizabeth, whose mother is a countess and whose brother-in-law is a duke.
Flynn’s life begins to unravel after Byre is arrested , his mother-in-law dies and leaves the couple only token gifts, and the actor positions the self-help book as a defense of misogyny. But it is Flynn’s antagonism toward the “sitting tenant” residing in the basement of his Islington manse that proves his undoing. Local government guarantees the right of the crazy and resentful Mrs. Voyles to live in his home.
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