A review by chirson
Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4 by Rose Tremain, Julian Barnes, Pat Barker, David Mitchell, Ian McEwan, Helen Simpson, Will Self, Zadie Smith, A.L. Kennedy, Salman Rushdie, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson

3.0

The stand-outs for me would be Helen Oyeyemi (whose novel I can't wait to read), Steven Hall and Naomi Alderman. I didn't much care for Thirlwell or Wyld and of the three pieces by Zadie Smith I've read this year, this one was unfortunately the least impressive.