James Walton

Inconvenient truths

To Heaven by Water, by Justin Cartwright

issue 18 July 2009

People who’ve read Justin Cartwright’s previous novels possibly won’t be too startled at what they find in his new one. The main character is a clever, well-read media man of about Cartwright’s age, who lives in London but ends up feeling the tug of a more primal culture — in this case by clearing off to the Kalahari for six months.

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