Boyd's done it again - brought the 20th C alive, this time through the lens of a pioneer female photographer. She takes us from childhood trauma to old-age by way of the home counties, London, Berlin, New York, the Blackshirt riots, the Western Front, the Highlands, Vietnam and a Scottish island. Boyd loves tricks - the photos scattered through the text are fakes, so is the quotation on the frontispiece; even the acknowledgements are not to be trusted. Relax, sit back, enjoy the magic!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 83 Winter 2017 ) |
