‘When I was eighteen my boyfriend’s father died in jail.’ This is the opening sentence of Ben Winch’s second novel; it is also the conclusion of the novel and, having got that out of the way, we can settle into the details that will tell us why this man died in jail and what his story means for this now eighteen-year-old woman.
My Boyfriend’s Father by Ben Winch
Wakefield Press, $16.96 pb, 222 pp
The Man Who Painted Women by John Newton
Minerva, $15.95 pb, 329 pp
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