Patrick Gale

Robin is the catalyst behind a taut series of events that unfolds with the rhythm and control of a good mystery. Every character and setting pulses with charged detail and dramatises the various kinds of love and guilt that grow between parents and children, men and women, and men and men. The isolation of blindness and madness, as well as the concealment of same-sex love, are explored with sensitivity and humour. A praiseworthy work.