White Rabbit, 192pp, £16.99
It's been 21 years since Michael Bracewell's last novel and his many fans have been eagerly awaiting . It iss Anthony Quinn. The lead character, Martin Knight, whose empty, monied life seemed to embody the 1980s, last appeared in Bracewell's when he was in his early thirties. Now he is drunk, divorced and deep into middle age, ‘a Prufrockian clerk in a dark suit, an office “lifer” who commutes from Hackney to the glass and steel canyons of the City to do a job he no longer understands.’
