History’s mistakes repeated ad nauseam

The History of History: A Novel of Berlin, By Ida Hattemer-Higgins, Faber & Faber, €16

The History of History: A Novel of Berlin, By Ida Hattemer-Higgins, Faber & Faber, €16

‘Without belief, Margaret’s story will quickly blanch for us, and the reality - that the world morphed and contorted and slurred around still and unchanging Margaret as cataclysmically as the body grows and ages and dies around its antique polymer codes - this will be misunderstood as nothing more than a fable.”

If this is the sort of ...