A haunting story set mainly in the white light of summer on a small island in the Arctic Circle. Liv looks back on a particular summer. She is living with her artistic mother almost in isolation with no sense of her future. Two boys and a man drown and another disappears mysteriously. Fascinated by myths she fears that something supernatural is happening but perhaps she is simply losing touch with reality.
Ed's note: John Burnside was winner of the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry with Black Cat Bone
(Christine Miller - bwl 64 Spring 2012 ) |
