Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor review – a debut with dark undercurrents

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Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor review – a debut with dark undercurrents

In this haunting and restrained novel, a young woman sets out to escape the confines of a Welsh island The remote coastal or island location has become something of a cliche in recent literary fiction, often giving a novel an off-the-peg windswept atmosphere while isolating its frequently solitary protagonist for the purpose of unhealthy introspection. Elizabeth O’Connor’s evocative and haunting debut seeks to do something different with the for…