02 January 2020

The Innocents ~ Michael Crummey



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Crummey is an expert writer at capturing bleak desolation and the perseverance of the human spirit and revealing it to us in a slow measured style.  The sense of place, the sense of time, the characterisations are all bleak, all harsh, yet create an inhospitable world you want to visualise.  Wonderfully appropriate language.