The Lie of the Land

 Haydn Middleton

David Nennius, a small-time electrical contractor in Oxford, England, is haunted by the past--not only his own past, which conceals a terrible crime and a terrible revenge, but the fabulous past of Britain. For he has, improbably, convinced himself that he is living out a pastiche of Blakean mythopoeia, the legend of Brutus, and British chthonic myths. His housemate Quinn and a volunteer social worker, Rachel, are hindered by their own preoccupations as they try to free their friend from his obsession. To grasp Middleton's larger meaning, which seems to involve the power of myths of rebirth to liberate love, may require more than a passing knowledge of significance in narrative structure and of British mythology, but anyone with a pulse will feel it quicken in response to revelations and in anticipation of a gruesome finale. Middleton knows how to build tension and, perhaps more remarkably, how to relax it.

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