“Turning For Home” by Barney Norris (2018)

“In the first young years of the new century, a team of researchers affiliated with Boston College attempted to collate an oral history of the Troubles, recording the recollections of combatants on both sides.”

I last read Barney Norris in 2017 and hugely admired his prose from the off, but not without a little jealousy about how good it is. I finally made my way back to him with Turning For Home to find that, if anything, he’s somehow got better.

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