The Sunday Telegraph London, February 12th, 2006
Cleaver
BY TIM PARKS
HARVILL SECKER, pounds 16.99, 316 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
The first sentence of Cleaver is such a mouthful - 108 words, if my arithmetic is right - that not many casual browsers will get to the end of it. Tim Parks, for me, is one of the finest novelists of his generation, but economy is not his strong suit, which may explain why he has not yet won the readership he deserves. He can be hard work because what he is attempting is hard: subtle, many-layered human portraits in which the subjects have at least three things on their mind at the same...
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