Backgammon for Beginners – review

Jacksons Lane, London "Once upon a time some were, and some were not," is a traditional Persian way of starting a story. The formula could not be more appropriate for this tale of the elusive Roshan, who came to England from Iran in the 1970s to escape revolution . Or maybe he was sent by his mother, concerned for her lazy son's future? We know for sure that he came with nothing but the family ...