Reflections on a life about to start and another at its end

The Mirror

**By** Richard Skinner

**Faber & Faber,** €18.90

**Reviewed by** Dermot Bolger

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The cliche is that any work of fiction should have a beginning, middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. In The Mirror, Richard Skinner meets the reader two thirds of the way: there is a definite beginning and a definite end. However, not only is the middle missing, but the beginning and end are from utterly ...