Book review: Caroline’s Bikini, by Kirsty Gunn

For those who like that sort of thing,” Miss Brodie said in her best Edinburgh voice, “that is the sort of thing they like”. In this year of, as it were, Muriel Spark’s second coming, it seems right to apply this now famous, even perhaps to the point of being a bit stale, quotation to Kirsty Gunn’s clever sort-of-novel. “Sort-of-novel” may seem a harsh comment, unfair indeed, while yet being justifiable.