Sweet Caress, by William Boyd - book review: Blurry snapshots of a life captured by a bloke in drag

William Boyd’s new heroine, Amory Clay, does love a penis. Her first lover has “a pinched bud of his thick foreskin (which) made his penis look tuberous, vegetal”. Her second has one that is “smaller … though thicker and more heavy headed; the glans seems distinctly bigger … like a medieval soldier’s helmet, called a sallet”. The third has one that is “small, darkly pigmented”; the fourth – well, you get the idea.