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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20070512
Author:NO BYLINE

Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary

by Joseph Connolly

Faber & Faber, 584pp, GBP 12.99

Review by ALLAN MASSIE

JOSEPH CONNOLLY'S EARLY novels were light comedies. He has written studies of Wodehouse and a critical biography of Jerome K Jerome (author of Three Men in a Boat) and his novels owed something to both of them, and also perhaps to Tom Sharpe, even if his voice was all his own. Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary is very different.

Though there are comic passages, it can scarcely be described as a comedy, though some may, I suppose, choose to call it a black one. Its setting is London before and ...

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