A thirteen-year-old girl goes missing from a village under the moors. Seamlessly intertwining snippets from the lives of the villagers with minute observations of the natural world over the course of the next ten years, McGregor weaves a sort of intricate, cumulative tapestry which becomes deeper and richer as the seasons go by and the lives of the villagers evolve, the shadow of the missing girl nagging at the edge of memory. Absolutely magical.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 91 Winter 2019 ) |
