The Paper Lantern Av Will Burns

<P>When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up <I>The Paper Lantern</I>'' <B>Michael Hofmann, </B><I><B>TLS</B></I><br><br>''A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered'' <B><I>Irish Times</I></B><br><br>''A book that speaks powerfully about what it is to be English and about the impact of coronavirus on our national psyche'' <B><I>Observer</I></B><br><br>''Will Burns is the new Defoe'' <B>Adelle Stripe</B><br><br>Set in a shuttered pub - The Paper Lantern - in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Prime Minister''s Chequers Estate, an unnamed narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills. As he charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a transformative period in his own history and that of the surrounding area, he reveals a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. Traversing local raves in secret vall