
The Island
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But as they move through the city, the familiar begins to feel inexplicably foreign.
The motorways are tightening. The air is changing. On every screen, in every shop window, a recurring image of a remote island haunts the broadcast - an image that pulls Graham back toward a childhood he has tried to outrun.
As the horizon darkens and the path home becomes increasingly uncertain, Graham is forced to navigate the shifting boundary between a father's protective instinct and a world that is rapidly losing its grip on the known.
The Island is a devastatingly controlled novella from one of the UK's finest poets. It is a story of what remains when the structures of the everyday fall away: the memories we cannot escape, and the desperate, quiet love between a father and his child.
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There is not a superfluous word, a slipshod phrase or a forced or obtrusive simile in the book ... laconic Poundian description ... the most involving novel I have read since Veronique Olmi's Beside the Sea. -- David Rose * Warwick Review *More details
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