![]() This book is exactly the type of wonderful achievement we should all celebrate and enjoy. It’s probably wrong to start a review with the judgement which should come, like the fate of the Whore of Babylon, at the very end, but in the case of Martin Malone’s The Unreturning I can do nothing else than offer my opinion here, at the start, and frame my comments around it. But when that goal is achieved it is invariably a marvellous, even magnificent, achievement. ![]() Keeping the correct balance between literary statement and the history of the event you are writing about is something that requires skill, sensitivity and judgement. REVIEW: The Unreturning by Martin Malone, Shoestring Press, 2019 paperback £10.00Īny attempt to produce creative literature from a distance, to write imaginatively about the past - in retrospect and with a degree of hindsight - is never an easy task.
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