Aspects of Feeling

Roger and Janet Kirkland are rich, admired, golden figures of the 1930s and the guardians of three children. The narrative explores the contrasting lives of these five people and the development of their obsessions and passions. Eventually political scandal overtakes one, and incidental murder another. Vansittart's novel sparkles with memorable tableaux and penetrating insights into various layers of public performance and private behavior. [His] prose is quite the most greedy for experience and history of any novelist now writing in England. Its efforts to engorge things, places and events are gargantuan. Vansittart's paragraphs will never be a mere collection of decorous annotations. They are richly overdone, stuffed to the gills with overflowing abundance."" - TLS.


Genre: General Fiction