Sweet Caress belongs to a genre that William Boyd has made his own: a novel which traces from birth to death (or thereabouts) the life of an artistic main character who experiences at first-hand several of the 20th century’s defining events. Boyd did this first in 1987 with The New Confessions, narrated by a film-maker whose career took him from the First World War trenches to the House Un-American Activities Committee. He then gave it a more mischievous treatment in the hoax biography Nat Tate: an American Artist (1998), before scoring a bona fide bestseller with Any Human Heart (2002), in which the protagonist witnessed, among much else, the Spanish Civil War, the Biafran War and the activities of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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