Family secrets brought into the light

A House of Light, by Candida Clark, Review, €27.35.

As a poet and novelist, Candida Clark has always taken risks with form and style in her prose, though not always with great success.

In 2003, she was tipped by the Observer to be one of the best young British writers, but the paper also warned that “failure is the price you sometimes pay for daring'‘.

However, her risk-taking has paid off with her ...