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Monstrous, beautiful, damaged people make for tiresome company in Polly Samson’s The Kindness

It’s all to do with sperm motility in Polly Samson’s The Kindness. You can see it coming, as the actress said to the bishop

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

The Kindness Polly Samson

Bloomsbury, pp.294, £14.99

Julian is clever, handsome and spoiled, a gilded youth who has all the girls wanting to mother him, and a mother who wants to mother him even more than they do. Part of his appealing vulnerability is that he has no father; another part is that he has a potentially fatal allergy to wasps.

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