Madeleine Feeny

Dystopian horror: They, by Kay Dick, reviewed

In a novel first published in 1977, England is in the grip of a philistine movement which persecutes art and nonconformity

Kay Dick. [Kay Dick Estate]
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  • They: A Sequence of Unease

    Kay Dick

    Faber, pp. 128, £8

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