6/20/2023 0 Comments Broken ghost niall griffiths![]() There’s Adam, an ex-addict volunteering at the rehab centre that helped him get clean Cowley, a dragon-tattooed, Leave-voting hardman who, priced out of the building trade by “Stony-hands or Poles”, turns to the gangsters lining up for his services and Emma, a single mother fending off a sleazy hookup who denounces her as a welfare cheat after she rejects his gift of a dildo moulded from his penis. Their travails, told in vernacular point-of-view chapters, hint at the past causes of their present difficulties, from childhood abuse to domestic violence. At first, the apparition seems to be more MacGuffin than comedown, as a means of immersing us in the characters’ stories. ![]() Set in west Wales, Niall Griffiths’s new novel begins on a mountainside in the aftermath of an open-air rave, as three troubled strangers witness the mysterious vision of a spectral, floating woman. ![]()
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