‘Only disconnect’ – in Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan depicts Britain’s great unravelling
- Written by: Andrew van der Vlies, Professor, English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
Melinda Nagy/ShutterstockIt is Thursday May 20, 2021, and Campbell Flynn – “tall and sharp at fifty-two […] a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished” – makes his way along Piccadilly to sign copies of his latest book, a life of the...