Through Plate-Glass
Ian Sansom: Jonathan Coe, 10 May 2001
“... all the way back to the beginning. Back to a country that neither of us would recognise, probably. Britain, 1973.’ Sophie’s presence is barely felt again until the end of the novel, when she pops up and says to poor Patrick, a man clearly possessed of the proverbial patience of a saint, who has listened to her for 400 pages without a peep: ‘All ... ”