Novelist Maggie Gee’s The White Family (Saqi, 2002) has just been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. “A thrill”, she says, but she’s still finding time to wade through the two volumes of Bill Hamilton’s Narrow Roads of Gene Land (Oxford, 2001). Gee loves his flashes of visual poetry when describing plants or insects, and admires his cheerful refusal to take the scientific establishment’s procedures at face value.
Gee is also reading Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman Future (Profile, 2002) with high hopes and she has just finished The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet (Serpent’s Tail, 2002). Writer…
