‘Times’ review of RECKLESS

First review in The Times last Saturday, January 25, by Angus Clarke: ‘He writes with a relaxed charm and seems to like his characters, especially the female ones… Nicholson braids his other themes into an equally satisfying, ambiguous and surprising conclusion… I hope that we have not seen the last of lovely heart-breaking Pamela.’ Reading reviews is no fun, believe me, I have to nerve myself to do it, starting with a quick scan to try to neutralise any wounding lines. But when a reviewer has enjoyed the book, it shows very quickly. So I’m relieved and happy with this first public judgement.

Meanwhile my head is full of Moscow 1988/9, which I’m writing about for the first episode of a possible TV series tracing a fictional Russian oligarch from wild youth to unimaginable wealth and power…