Like many a good novel before it, In the Fold takes as its subject one person’s involvement with a family whose values differ from his own. Their motives are strange and unfathomable; to their rules, manners, class and context he is a stranger.
Michael is our guide to the Hanbury family. He is a student; his university room is next door to Adam Hanbury’s, and so they are friends. ‘I had surmised,’ says lofty young Michael on the first page, ‘that he was different from me, but such differences I regarded as somehow ornamental.’
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