His own interest, he tells the reader, has increased “in inverse proportion to the decline in the vibrancy, accountability and sovereignty of our Parliament”.
In fact, instead of your youthful vibrancy and unlimited capability to last forever, the time goes too fast than you’ll ever believe in a few years from now.
If his last two novels, published in 2022, were too abstract and psychological for some, they were also works of striking vibrancy and originality from an author who was nearly 90.