Crazy
JANE FEAVER
(CORSAIR, 320 PP, £16.99)
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Christopher Hitchens reportedly commented, “everyone has a book in them, and in most cases that’s where it should remain.” Nonetheless, in recent years, figures including Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard have enjoyed great critical and commercial success by writing lengthy, multi-volume fictions that are based on their own lives. The novelist Jane Feaver has now written her own semi-autobiographical novel, Crazy, which is a taut, intelligent and ­engaging addition to the genre.