这本书基调决不像你可能想像的那么灰暗(或像它本应的那么灰暗):克拉克的写作风格机智地令人失去警觉。但他是正确的吗?

• The book's tone is by no means as bleak as you might suppose (or maybe as it should be): Mr Clark writes with disarming wit. But is he right?