The River Capture by Mary Costello review – adventurous in its ambitions
Mary Costello’s first novel, Academy Street, was a bestseller and won a host of prizes. Set in the US in the 1940s, it recalled Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn in its quiet, tightly written intensity, a novel like salt on the tongue. Her follow-up, The River Capture, is a more peculiar thing. As elegantly …
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