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Marina Lewycka’s The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid is completely bonkers

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid Marina Lewycka

Fig Tree, pp.266, £14.99

Faced with Marina Lewycka’s new novel, it’s tempting to say that The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid is also a pretty serviceable description of its contents. Yet, in the end, that feels far too neat a formulation for a book that goes well beyond the uneven into the realms of the completely unhinged.

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