By Ian Sansom

Ian Sansom is a novelist and critic. He is the Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College Dublin. His most recent book is Essex Poison (HarperCollins, 2017).


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The Universal Key

The Universal Key     My father collected keys. He’d always collected keys, from childhood. He had thousands. Maybe more – tens of thousands. But of course the one key that he was looking for had always eluded his grasp. His collection was never complete. There were some keys – important collectors’ keys – that…