'It is Vic's impression that English wildlife is getting streetwise, moving from the country into the city where the living is easier - where there are no traps, pesticides, hunters and sportsmen, but plenty of well-stocked garbage bins, and housewives like Marjorie, softhearted or softheaded enough to throw their scraps into the garden, creating animal soup-kitchens. Nature is joining the human race and going on the dole'.

Nice Work, David Lodge