A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray, Viking, £14.99, ISBN 0670913472 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald
FROM the search for an iridescent butterfly the colour of a summer sky and as big as a big man’s hand, swarms of red and black Monarchs filling the trees in a Californian grove, to a scant handful of butterflies clinging to a hanged man, you will understand that John Murray’s short stories are visual and visceral. He is a wonderful fiction writer, who trained as a doctor, then became an epidemiologist. Murray now works to improve the health of children in…
