Brian Martin

Cuckoo in the nest?

When Mandy takes charge of retired widower James Wentworth, is she really the godsend his children believe her to be?

issue 27 July 2019

You might think The Carer rather an unpromising title, but Deborah Moggach’s book delivers a wickedly witty entertainment. Towards the end, she describes the setting where a crucial event takes place — ‘somewhere as humdrum as a caravan park, toilet block, clock golf, Tupperware’. So very good at describing the ordinary, she transforms it into the unusual, shocking and fascinating.

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