Census by Jesse Ball cookbook This is a strange and

This is a strange and “transformative” book

Marco Pierre White

said Oliver Moody in The Times

but about how Stroud has “carved out her own domestic happiness”

Census by Jesse Ball cookbook This is a strange andIn this curious, clever novel, a father and his son, who has Downs syndrome, travel from town A to town Z in an unnamed country, administering a national census, said Brian Martin in The Spectator. The father, who is dying, is a retired doctor with a passion for cormorants; his wife, who predeceased him, was a clown. The novel, the foreword tells us, was inspired by the life of Jesse Balls brother, who had Downs syndrome and died in 1998. It is