A well constructed
novel, it creates a claustrophobic world in which people are seeking
belonging and identity – the two main protagonists, Sinclair and
Barrow, have little in common expect that sorrowful desire.
Sinclair struggles
to find a purpose in Army life in peacetime, Barrow perhaps with life
in general.
It is set in the
late forties or early fifties yet the world it creates often feels
further removed from us than that – perhaps the cold of a Victorian
Barracks held them suspended in time?
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