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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 ...