The Slowworm's Song

Maggie - writing is no cure for insomnia, though it is, I suppose, a use for it. When I started all this, still reeling from the letter, threads of panic in my chest, I wanted ... what? To get in my side of the story before they got in theirs? One more, one last go at making sense of it all? I thi......more

As a young man, Stephen Rose, turns against his family's Quaker beliefs and joins the British army, eventually serving in Northern Ireland during the terrible Troubles. While there he commits an act he cannot drink into oblivion. Now, finally sober after a long dissipation, divorced from his wife, es......more

Andrew Miller is one of my favourite writers and I've read all his novels. If he has a weakness it's probably that his characters are never quite as compelling as one would wish and his lack of humour. This is his latest offering, a first person narrative of an alcoholic who served in the British ar......more

Shame, failure, guilt, and the search for redemption are the outstanding themes in this understated narrative of an ex-soldier of the British Army who served during the Troubles in Belfast. One horrific incident in 1982 has come to define Stephen Rose’s life. He has not been punished except by himse......more

Extraordinary.A prose that soars,a masterful,heartwrenching and compassionate dissection of a soul.......more