The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens

This won the Booker in 1970, so I thought I'd give it a go but to be honest it was a bit of a trudge. It reads like a British, Jewish, not very good version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - there's even a vulnerable young psychiatric patient named Billy. There are some plot developments that are promising but go nowhere in particular.

Oh well.