Pilcrow

''Gripping.'' New Statesman''Compulsive.'' Observer''Strange and exhilarating.'' Sunday Times''A joy to read.'' Sunday Telegraph''Constantly surprising.'' London Review of Books''One of the most original comic creations in recent fiction.'' GuardianTime passed slowly in the 1950s, especially if you''d been put to bed and told not to move (until further notice). But John Cromer, the central charact...