One remarkable feature of contemporary American literature is the way that the civil war, over now for 150 years, still has the power to inspire highly original fiction: think of recent prize-winners such as "March" by Geraldine Brooks, Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain" and "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" by Allan Gurganus. Now comes "Neverhome", Laird Hunt's seventh work of fiction and his first novel to be published in Britain. It arrives with a long list of plaudits from luminaries including Paul Auster, Kevin Powers and Michael Ondaatje.
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