A review by hogwash1
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher

4.0

Strange book, strange in a good way, ostensibly about a kidnapped girl but which soon loses track of that element of the plot and veers from thriller into an examination of the lives of the people in the girl's little town who gossip about her and then drop her as a topic of discussion, just as the book does, and thus we, like the townspeople, are implicated in our prurient fascination with her story and then the almost equally prurient look into the lives of the other characters. It continually baffled my expectations, but the baffling was a major part of the charm.