Saturday, 14 July 2018

Everything I Found on the Beach by Cynan Jones



Once again Cynan Jones provides a powerful narrative, rich and yet tightly written.

As with Cove the sea has a central role, and landscape and sea are given a life that help to draw you into the heart of the drama.

Ideas around identity, and the struggle between your desires and the hand life has dealt you, are core to this story – or stories, the intertwining of different peoples lives, out of the blue these unconnected people have profound impacts on each other.

Jones once again resists happy endings, good people who try hard don’t always win out in the end. But the “bad guys” are shown to have complexities – there is little that is black and white.

To have a consistent output of this quality is remarkable.

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