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Haunted by the past: Last Days in Cleaver Square, by Patrick McGrath, reviewed

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

Last Days in Cleaver Square Patrick McGrath

Hutchinson, pp.225, 16.99

At the risk of encroaching on Spectator Competition territory, what is the least surprising thing for any given narrator in a particular author’s work to say? (For one of Irvine Welsh’s, a single word of four letters might be enough.) In the case of Patrick McGrath, I’d suggest, the answer comes on page 55 of his new novel: ‘I confess I feel that my sanity is under threat.

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