An ambitious second novel achieves something special
All Is Song by Samantha Harvey. Jonathan Cape, €14. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
All Is Song by Samantha Harvey
**Jonathan Cape, €14**
**Reviewed by Joanne Hayden**
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Ideas may not be fashionable in contemporary fiction, but that hasn't prevented Samantha Harvey from writing a deeply contemplative second novel centred around a modern-day Socrates and his beleaguered younger brother. Harvey's acclaimed debut novel, The Wilderness, tracked a man's descent into Alzheimer's, and All Is Song is an equally ambitious undertaking.