Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath review – memory, ageing and guilt | Fiction | The Guardian

Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath review – memory, ageing and guilt | Fiction | The Guardian

... But this is Kennington in the summer of 1975; the real general is dying in a palace full of Goyas in Madrid. The women around McNulty gather, like something out of Lorca: daughter Gilly, who works in the foreign office; housekeeper Dolores López, rescued from the civil war by Francis when she was just eight; elder sister Finty, an artist who makes her way down from the Isle of Mull. “Pretty far gone, is it?”, she baldly asks her distressed brother. ...