When the Costume Comes Off
Adam Mars-Jones: Philip Hensher, 14 April 2011
King of the Badgers
by Philip Hensher.
Fourth Estate, 436 pp., £18.99, March 2011,978 0 00 730133 1 Show More
by Philip Hensher.
Fourth Estate, 436 pp., £18.99, March 2011,
“... flair for building up the large social picture, and the same amplitude is there in his new book, King of the Badgers, with the addition of a genre element, which intermittently brings it close to crime thriller territory. The setting is the seaside town of Hanmouth, a genteel Devon resort with an underclass hinterland, bearing enough resemblance to Topsham ... ”