Alex Preston

A panoramic novel of modern Britain: The Blind Light, by Stuart Evers, reviewed

Following the fortunes of two men from the Cuban missile crisis to New Labour, Evers delves into questions of class, family and history

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  • The Blind Light

    Stuart Evers

    Picador, pp. 544, £18

A decade ago — eheu fugaces labuntur anni — Stuart Evers’s debut story collection, Ten Stories About Smoking, was one of the first books I ever reviewed, and I’ve kept tabs on his career ever since, in that spirit of comradely competitiveness one feels for a writer of a similar age launching at the same time.

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