Open Country: A Comedy with a Sting

...in his new novel, "Open Country," which has just been published, Mr. Hewlett tells far more fully and satisfyingly of the growth and development of Senhouse's character and theories, and how, in the course of his wanderings, he met with Sanchia Percival under circumstances delightfully characteristic of them both and of what happened thereafter. "Senhouse," he says, "had theories about everything in nature and society, and practiced more of them than you would have thought possible." He ...