SMALL HOURS
by Bobby Palmer
(Headline, $37.99)
Bobby Palmer’s debut about a grief-paralysed widower whose life improves when he meets an ET-like creature, was a big hit. The British author’s second novel also has the flavour of a modern-day fable. What makes it like a fable is not so much the–yes–talking fox, but more the novel’s rhythmic prose and its sense that there
