The Light at the End of the Day: Less would have been more for sprawling Holocaust epic
Eleanor Wasserberg’s second novel has its moments, but its plot fatally overreaches in its ambition
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The Light at the End of the Day
By Eleanor Wasserberg
4th Estate, €13.99
Eleanor Wasserberg’s debut novel Foxlowe was an exploration of the ideals of family and home. It told the story of a cult leading a makeshift existence in a dilapidated country estate and the encroaching menace of the outside world. For her second book, Wasserberg has transplanted this notion of an assembled group battling against a changing society into a historic ...