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Red Shift by Alan Garner

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This lonely tale deals with non-linear Time, centred round a hill in Cheshire called Mow Cop and three young men linked to it down the centuries (or are they reincarnations of the same man?) in Roman days, in Cromwell’s time, and the 1970s.

The dialogues aren’t realistic, nor meant to be, instead poetically reflecting inner states.

Red Shift is a wonderful yet painful book, like a spiky dead sea urchin on a stony beach, under stars of late autumn.



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