Books: Darkness with all its squalid self-deceptions Honey By Arnold Wesker SCRIBNER pounds 16.99 pounds 15.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

The Independent on Sunday | October 9, 2005| | Copyright

To every mind there occurs, from time to time, the suspicion that the dead are essentially party-poopers and derelictors of duty. Because, of course, they shouldn't die. Arnold Wesker's first novel takes on this subliminal protest with delicacy and unbounded compassion.

Beatie Bryant, a figure from Wesker's play Roots, is chatted up by an elderly man she meets in Shepherd's Market. He leaves her with a memory of courtesy and with an obsessional urge to divide the world into two groups. Beatie is finding herself in a world not quite ready for her self- discovery. She is turned down for jobs, ...

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