James Walton

Marina Lewycka’s The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid is completely bonkers

Its elements — Brexit, money laundering, geriatric sex and the trade in human organs — never blend together but merely co-exist

issue 29 February 2020
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  • The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid

    Marina Lewycka

    Fig Tree, pp. 266, £14

Faced with Marina Lewycka’s new novel, it’s tempting to say that The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid is also a pretty serviceable description of its contents. Yet, in the end, that feels far too neat a formulation for a book that goes well beyond the uneven into the realms of the completely unhinged.

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