The Loney: 'The Book of the Year 2016'
Registered by WormyOne of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on 1/30/2017
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Journal Entry 1 by WormyOne from Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Monday, January 30, 2017
I bought this in the Oxfam charity shop on Kensington Gardens, Brighton.
The blurb reads:
"Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector.
Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure.
In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. They cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end..
Many years on, Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's care.
But then the child's body is found.
And the Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end".
The blurb reads:
"Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector.
Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure.
In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. They cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end..
Many years on, Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's care.
But then the child's body is found.
And the Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end".
Journal Entry 2 by WormyOne at Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Friday, March 31, 2017
A readable supernatural thriller but I'm surprised it won the Costa. I found the writing style overdone, too liberally sprinkled with grim and ominous similes, and the characterisations thin. Still, it jogs along well enough and passed a few hours of a train journey.
On the counter.
