O'Hagan's work often blends memoir, fiction and journalism and it feels safe to assume Caledonian Road is no exception
, O’Hagan’s seventh novel, which aims to do for today’s London what Dickens did for its Victorian counterpart.
And that’s before we get to the story’s main protagonists: Campbell Flynn, a 52-year-old celebrity academic who trades on his liberal credentials, and Milo Mangasha, Flynn’s “favourite upsetter” and student sidekick, who is dabbling in the humanities alongside his Computer Science MSc. Flynn, who has just written a hit biography of Vermeer, is the type of person who not only reads his own reviews but memorises them.
It is a car crash in slow motion, like everything else that happens that fateful year, from Flynn’s dabbling in cryptocurrency and the dark web to the establishment’s entanglement with dodgy Russians. “You know the Russians paid for Brexit, right. It was their money that made the Tories believe that London was invincible,” a reporter tells her editor.
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