Books: Paperbacks

The Independent - London | February 22, 2003| | Copyright

Green Man Running

Georgina Hammick

Vintage, pounds 6.99, 296pp

As good on divorcees as Helen Simpson is on mothers, Georgina Hammick writes the kind of fiction that triggers yelps of recognition. Told largely from the viewpoint of a 41-year-old divorced father, her latest novel opens with a flashback to a rural childhood. As a boy, Desmond Bucknell was partly responsible for an accident which left a local farm-hand in a wheelchair. Fast-forward 30 years and Desmond, now re-named Dexter, is living with his two young sons and newish girlfriend, Moy, in a small terraced house in Bethnal Green. ...

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