"..Gave me a touch of the Karamazovs this one did."
Peter Ackroyd has written so extensively about the history of London you get a sense of a writer taking a walk down some familiar streets and guessing at what goes on behind the lace curtains. Not a dander round suburbia but a wayward ramble through the connected villages of London, so to speak. What would I know, being no perambulator myself much less a deep topographer of the living mind of a city as complex as The Great London.
