Altogether a fine book, well-written and disruptive, in its non-linear way. One comes away feeling as though Malcolm has conveyed something closer to the truth than the courtroom fictions of her protagonists -- including the putative heroine, who turns out to be rather unattractive, if not a bore. It would make a bracing read whilst sitting in a jury assembly room waiting to be called. Justice is what it is, a fiction. ...more