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Appearances are deceptive: Trio, by William Boyd, reviewed

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

Trio William Boyd

Penguin/Viking, pp.302, 18.99

Talbot Kydd, film producer; Anny Viklund, American actress; Elfrida Wing, novelist; these make the trio of the title. Private lives are the issue. Wing’s long-suffering agent tells her if you want to know what’s going on in people’s heads, ‘behind those masks we all wear — then read a novel’.

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