Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan review: a thrilling, picaresque tale of London life
by Hamish MacBain
Apr 05, 2024
3 minutes
Few things in life are as daunting as the doorstop novel that comes complete with a glossary of the characters featured within. Over the 650 pages of Andrew O’Hagan’s latest, it warns us, we will have 59 different people to keep track of, ranging from gang members and drill rappers and actors and fashionistas to aged Tory peers and people traffickers and teachers and newspaper editors and a sitting tenant from hell.
Not as many characters as, say, Marlon James’s A Brief History Of Seven Killings (75), but still
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