Lady Charlotte Higgins (our favorite Higgins ever with the possible exception of the Magnum PI guy), she of the quicksilver mind and infinite literary insight asks today, what's the best British novel since the war?
Opera Chic is on the record since July 2009:
Malcolm Lowry, the man who wrote the greatest novel of the post-WWII era, Under the Volcano...
Stating the obvs, basically (even if yes, Le Carré is an underrated giant indeed, and JG Ballard, our desolation angel, is already in the Pantheon, where he belongs).