![]() But James Robertson is also interested in stories, and this gives him a licence to send things off on tangents that are often far more engaging than the lost and drifting Mike. So the background is late 1960s and, in much more detail, the events in Scotland and the rest of Britain during the 1970s. In Part 1, almost the first quarter of the novel, he looks back over the first quarter of his life beyond the age of about nine. ![]() There’s a framing device, to do with the difficulty he is having writing an introduction to the catalogue for a posthumous exhibition of the work of his father, a much better-known (because much better) photographer than Mike himself. ![]() Mainly, it’s a fairly conventional narrative, set in Scotland, that takes in a retrospective of the vaguely unsatisfying life of 50-something Mike. ![]()
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