Frances Fyfield
The crime writer on the Paterson book she wishes she'd written...
Loving Monsters by James Hamilton Paterson
"I would love to have been the author of this: I would have been so proud of it. I have no idea whether it's true or not and I really envy that conceit. It's beautifully written: the language blows you away and it's utterly compulsive."
A chance encounter in a local store leads a biographer to record the life of his enigmatic neighbour. From the terrace of a Tuscan villa comes the story of a tantalizing journey, leading the reader from the gas-lit streets of Prewar London to Egypt in the months before World War II. Loving Monsters is a provocative novel from the winner of the 1991 Whitbread First Novel Award for Gerontius.
