https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/clare-bucknell/bring-me-the-good-scrub Created Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 21/04/2023 - 00:00 In Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton’s characters keep fabricating their own versions of reality, but their inventions are boxed in: lies, casting after ordinary plausibility, tend to resemble one another as much as they resemble truth.