He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself. 'No living writer has represented the fragility of man's experience so marvellously as Go...

He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself. 'No living writer has represented the fragility of man's experience so marvellously as Golding.' A.S.