Bradfield, Scott - Robert Sandall (review date 11 December 1988)
Robert Sandall (review date 11 December 1988)
SOURCE: Sandall, Robert. “Cliffhangers which Reveal Sheer Madness.” Sunday Times, no. 8575 (11 December 1988).
[In the following review of The Secret Life of Houses, Sandall describes Bradfield's writing as stylish, vivid, and dramatic.]
Scott Bradfield's apparent conviction that California really is a crazy place, that it is in fact one of the world's psychiatric black spots, may or may not be justified but it provides a superb launch-pad for these confident and stylish fictions. The nine stories which make up Bradfield's first book [The Secret Life of Houses] are peopled with a complete gallery of nutcases: from the averagely deluded through the chronically obsessed and compulsively sadistic all the way across to the murderously psychotic. One character suspects that he is a werewolf. Another schizophrenically torments himself by devising a talkative ghostly alter-ego to...
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