Definitely has stayed with me. Takes some deep thought to understand. Many themes. Animals, mostly domestic, but a red kite and badger. Badger disappearing, geese, dogs, cats, sheep, cows. Old woman smell. Spare in expressed emotions. Stilted conversations. "death" in the form of the boy? (remind...
Probably a 3.5 but feeling a bit more generous. This book has a 'doomed' quality about it, although I didn't expect the details of the ending. Sparsely written with only a few characters, some of whom we spend most of the novel not knowing their name. The plot and characters kept me reading, I al...