Chris Womersley creates a self-contained world filled with equal parts dread and awe, ordinariness and otherworldliness.
“I am no stranger to the middle of the night,” one of the narrators in Chris Womersley’s short-story collectionChris Womersley has written a novel full of sly humour.Those lines could serve as something of a modus operandi for Womersley’s decorated career. His work is nominally crime fiction but deeply interested in how crisis reveals character and the dark nights of the soul that follow an upheaval.
Marion’s grief and the pair’s amateur sleuthing complicate their relationship, they’ve grown up together, but Nick wants more. He jealously observes as she tentatively starts to date someone else, returning him to his role as “the pale suitor perched forever beneath her window”.
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