The cutting edge

Professor Corbett did no believe in haste and called his first son Brother A and the second Brother B while he searched for suitable names. By the time the boys were finally christened Peregrine and Benedick, they were as inseparable as twins. Their devotion survived the names, survived growing up, and even survived separation. But can it survive the love of the same woman - or is loving one the same as loving the other? In the world of Penelope Gilliatt's fiction, we must expect the unexpected - and nowhere more than in the witty resolution of this, her richest and most eloquent novel to date.