Lucy Beresford

Michael Arditti is the Graham Greene of our time

A review of Michael Arditti’s Widows and Orphans suggests that we are all waifs and strays now in our broken society

issue 28 February 2015
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  • Widows and Orphans

    Michael Arditti

    Arcadia, pp. 351

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