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Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

The Tell Tale Heart (Review of The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu)

The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock HeartMathias MalzieuVintage 2011
Jack doesn't have the best start to life. The bastard child of an Edinburgh prostitute, he is delivered into the world into a small house on top of Arthur's Seat in the middle of a freezing winter in 1874. Adding insult to injury…