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Eric Linklater's demand of dialect and situation, and his gift ideas for humour and storytelling have rarely been better displayed than in A Man Over Forty. Edward Balintore is the archetypal television set personality: big, loud, and assertive, directed at reactionary sentiments and meets of explosive anger. In a 'depth' interview prior to the cameras he is driven to admitting a dread 'of being found out' and collapses using what the doctors call overstrain and stressed tension. Combined with his Watson or Sancho Panza, Man Palladis, a stylish, detached, and well-connected young man, he sets out on a long and varied quest for peacefulness and an earthly heaven. Jamaica, Ireland, Greece, all are sampled in turn and nearly accepted; but in each some dissonant element from Balintore's history arises and transmits him on. The Furies (if it's indeed they who are chasing him), finally meet up with him in the Aegean around the corner of Mount Athos - properly enough, for a guy with a soul to save or sell. That is a book of great satirical and imaginative opportunity - a picture of red-blooded Dionysiac man bent on defying 'the solemn ones' who plague him.
