Strange Flowers
Published 2022-02-09
Book info
- Title Strange Flowers
- Author Donal Ryan
- Year 2020
- Genre Contemporary
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
Thoughts
This has rave reviews but ultimately I just don’t think it was for me. It was beautifully written but I just found it meandering and odd and I didn’t feel like the various diversions added anything to the story. There was a really interesting concept underlying the prose but it took such a long time to get there, I don’t think we could really enjoy it. Then a sudden twist at the end that just felt out of pace with the rest. A great job but not for me.
Rating: 2 / 5