![]() ![]() The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe- review.The Long, Long Life of Trees by Fiona Stafford- review.Our heroine is an innocent who has suffered childhood sexual abuse and is now looking for sex on her own terms. Certainly serving to get me bold and fit for whatevers come”. An early encounter with alcohol is rendered as “my mouth swings wide with unutterable shite. We follow the girl through her first year at acting school, a Stanislavskian training camp similar to the one where the writer herself studied. Imagine Jane Eyre crossed with the less murdery bits of Last Tango in Paris in the context of claustrophobic rehearsal rooms, dingy pubs and Camden bedsits. But at its heart is a swoonily old-fashioned romance of two damaged people learning how to take pleasure in each other. ![]() ![]() Set in mid-Nineties London (whose pre-internet intimacy feels wonderfully alien), McBride’s second novel is as fearless and febrile as her debut. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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