Alexander Masters

From faintly weird to fiercely eccentric

  • Ten Sorry Tales

    Mick Jackson

    Faber, pp. 160

HERMIT WANTED
Free meals and accommodation.
Situated on grand estate.
Would suit the quiet type.

When Giles and Ginny married ‘it was like a great clanging-together of bank vaults that rang out across the land’. Now Ginny demanded a savage. She had discovered an empty cave in the woods, and it needed to be occupied.

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