From Oliver Cromwell, famous for insisting on having his portrait painted "warts and all", to Silvio Berlusconi, forgiven his foibles by many of his own people because Italy is a "land of human nature", there is an ongoing trend in forgiving those who best display what Leonard Cohen called "the crack in everything, that's how the light gets in".
A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.