Greg wonders if Burnside has seen the film Strangers on a Train. He does not, as he puts it, want to live ‘like a monk.’ How many suburbanites, down the years, have echoed that sentiment? In any case, he goes to a bar, and soon meets Greg, who lives in a semi with a wife he refers to as ‘the Millstone’. They have just chosen to live in a place where they must pretend to be.īurnside begins to drink again. And the people he encounters in suburbia are hardly normal either. The events Burnside describes are certainly suburban, in that they took place in Worplesdon, and the Epsom Road, and various other parts of the hinterland of greater London, but they are hardly normal. What follows is one of the best told memoirs I’ve read for ages.
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