The verbal representation of water has a rich literary history, from Virginia Woolf's The Waves to Alice Oswald's Dart. However, readers anticipating playful linguistic responses to the elements will be disappointed water, in this book, is something to swim in, drown in or live next to.
Boyne's novel is propulsive and deftly dramatised, so that Willow's journey is expressed through human interaction...
Willow's pain is harrowing to confront it involves the imprisonment of her husband for crimes the world has assumed that she enabled, and a tragedy those crimes have visited on her.
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