What Will Survive of Us

HOWARD JACOBSON

(JONATHAN CAPE, 304 PP, £20)

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“Is this a book that you would even wish your wife or servants to read?” asked Mervyn Griffith-Jones for the prosecution at the Lady Chatterley trial. Well, I certainly wouldn’t let my gamekeeper read it, riposted some magnificent joker whose name escapes me. That gamekeeper has taken charge of Howard Jacobson’s new novel.