Amanda Craig

Fiction embroiled in the Profumo affair

William Nicholson entwines his compelling novel Reckless with the sex-and-spies scandal — but his prose gets clunky when describing real events

Stephen Ward (Photo: Express Newspapers/Getty) 
issue 01 February 2014
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