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David Gilbey

Lyn Hughes’s One Way Mirrors begins with a white horse impaled on headlights. It’s autumn, ‘the stars look cold and pinched’. You know it’s going to end badly and it does, mostly.

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Published in June 1993, no. 151

David Gilbey reviews 'The Common Rat' by Carmel Bird

David Gilbey
Monday, 01 February 1993

There are some pretty ambiguous rats in this collection and most of them are male but ultimately, it’s the writer’s own unease that cumulatively gnaws away at happiness and achievement.

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