Albert Angelo Peter Robinson fieldfares flock in the hawthorn

fieldfares flock in the hawthorn trees and badgers and foxes prowl deep in the woods mating and fighting

starving foundling is discovered outside their gates

Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside: no missing limbs

Caroline Mabry is confronted with the arrival of an apparently unstable but charming derelict

Albert Angelo Peter Robinson fieldfares flock in the hawthornIn his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he really discovered what he should be doing. On page 163 of this extraordinary book is one