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Unreliable memories: Laura Laura, by Richard Francis, reviewed

Newspaper: The Spectator
Date: Aug 15 2020
URL: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/unreliable-memories-laura-laura-by-richard-francis-reviewed

“The novel is … full of memorable aperçus — particularly strikingly when it evokes ‘that alchemy which transforms anxiety, failure or disaster into the safety of anecdote’ … There’s a certain alchemy in writing that can transform themes of anxiety, failure or disaster into something as moving, disturbing and funny as this novel is.”