All We Shall Know (by Donal Ryan)

I hadn’t heard of the Irish writer Donal Ryan. I doubt if I would ever have picked up the book ‘All we shall know’ if it hadn’t been on my reading group list for 2020. I almost didn’t buy it: I knew it wouldn’t arrive in time for the meeting where it was to be discussed. But I downloaded a ‘sample’ - the first few chapters - for my Kindle, and was intrigued. 

So as I prefer to have a book in printed form if possible, I bought it inexpensively from ‘AwesomeBooks’. That was six months ago now,...