Fellow #readers, a #mystery (missing person) does exist in Stef Penney’s latest novel, although it takes a distant backseat to the characters. Set in England, 1986, the first person narrative is told in parallel by Ray Lovell, a half-gypsy private investigator, and JJ, a 14-year old English gypsy. While Penney’s first novel, The Tenderness of Wolves (an award winner), had a sweeping and lush texture of the Canadian Northern Territories, The Invisible Ones feels confined, even claustrophobic....
Published on December 01, 2014 14:53