![]() ![]() To capture this constrained setting and quiet character requires specific skills, which Baume has in spades. But it is the beautifully measured control of plot and the authenticity of the narrative voice that most impresses.Ī deft and moving debut. This book is a stunning and wonderful achievement by a writer touched by greatness.Īn ambitious stylist with an astonishing eye for detail and a clear passion for language. ![]() Boundaries melt, other hearts become knowable…. At its heart is a touching and inspiriting sense of empathy, that rarest but most human of traits. Again and again it wows you with its ambition…. This is a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite. No writer since JM Coetzee or Cormac McCarthy has written about an animal with such intensity. Lovely book…destined to become a small classic of animal communion literature.Ī tour de force. ![]()
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