WWI is over: Daniel, returns to a small Cornish town where, by obeying a dying old woman's wish, he becomes an outsider living on her smallholding, tending the land, feeding the goats, yearning to survive but all the time remembering . . . the horrors, the filthy mud, the smells and the guilt over the death of Frederick his boyhood friend who haunts him waking and sleeping. Intense and moving written in Dunmore's characteristic, lucid prose.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 74 Autumn 2014 ) |
