Impressive second act from a born storyteller

The Black Snow. By Paul Lynch. Quercus Books, £20.15. Reviewed by Eamon Sweeney.

Paul Lynch: dazzling prose gifts

The Black Snow

**By** Paul Lynch

**Quercus Books,** £20.15

**Reviewed by** Eamon Sweeney

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Paul Lynch appears to be setting himself the task of becoming the most prolific novelist in Ireland. The former film critic with the Sunday Tribune only published his first novel Red Sky in Morning last April, but he's already followed up that acclaimed debut with a second novel, The Black Snow.

A fictional town in rural Ireland is a ...