Grief and tragedy are at heart of fine debut
Rather than a central character, Matthew Hooton’s debut novel revolves around its setting, a fictional road on Vancouver Island, ‘‘far enough from coastline and so deep in wilderness that it feels like it inhabits its own continent’’.
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By Matthew Hooton
Jonathan Cape, €24.40
Rather than a central character, Matthew Hooton’s debut novel revolves around its setting, a fictional road on Vancouver Island, ‘‘far enough from coastline and so deep in wilderness that it feels like it inhabits its own continent’’.
Deloume Road is a place apart, a lush, mysterious landscape whose inhabitants are connected in ways they cannot see. Hooton’s story shadows them, drawing them ...
