This is Irish literature at its best, highly recommended. While 15 stories is a good number to stop on, I was left wanting even more.įor me, the author doesn’t make a single mis step. A few of them struck a harder chord than I was prepared for and ultimately left me a little broken. This time however I was absolutely blown away by each and every story in this collection. While there are moments of joy within these stories, they mostly show a bleak side of life.Īs has been mentioned in a few other reviews I have seen, the typical short story collection will include a couple that don’t match up to the quality of the better ones. What I will say that all the stories took me through a rollercoaster – but I also felt a bit like my emotions had been through a sparring session with Katie Taylor, I was battered and bruised.
I’m going to keep it short and sweet here, I’m not going to go into which stories I favoured more than others – as I honestly can’t pick between them.
I usually read them in the mornings before work, and it is something I plan on continuing with some of the other story collections on my shelf.
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