Book Review: Days without End

[Belinda]

"Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment."

A poetic book by Sebastian Barry on the lives of two teenage boys in the 19th century who became friends and lovers, and eventually led them to fighting alongside each other for two wars, and living out their lives with an Indian girl they adopted by chance.

It is a relatively small book but not easy to read, especially with detailed descriptions of the killings during the wars, and the prose that is meant to replicate the English of an Irish immigrant of that time. It is a very good story with an interesting historical background. I would love to explore more of this author's books, especially his latest one Old God's Time.