ROBIN Jenkins's Second World War-set novel is a broodingly strange affair.
Peter Arnott's new adaptation takes all of Jenkins's concerns about class, good, evil and the self-destructive fear of otherness on the one hand and an empathetic desire to transcend one's own station on the other, and makes a serious statement on the human condition.
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