Lead Review

• Book: Kitchen Venom
• Location: London
• Author: Philip Hensher

‘Sex, politics and death are the classic themes of Hensher’s original novel. Set in Parliament at the time of the fall of Margaret Thatcher, it follows the disintegration of the family of a Commons clerk…Hensher is both sharp and melancholic. Here he is on Thatcher: “When she walked she seemed to extinguish a cigarette beneath every pace; in her walk, it could be seen that she was in the right.”’ Observer

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