New Fiction: Carys Davies & Elizabeth O’Connor
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Carys Davies’ Clear is set during the Highland Clearances of the 1840s, when a church minister is sent from the mainland to evict Ivar, the sole occupant of one of the last inhabited islands beyond Shetland. With no shared language and a mutual distrust, will the men manage to find understanding?
Elizabeth O’Connor’s Whale Fall is set on a fictional island off the Welsh coast. It is 1938, and teenager Manod is trying to imagine her future: she must either stay and look after her father's house or marry and leave. Neither are appealing, and both carry threat.
In conversation with Liv Chapman
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