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He Wants

by Alison Moore - £8.99  Salt Publishing (2014)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781907773815 | ISBN 10: 1907773819

Retired teacher Lewis Sullivan always imagined living by the sea.
 
He lives instead in the Midlands village in which he was born. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup. He does not want soup. He frequents his second-favourite pub, where he can get half a shandy, a speciality sausage and a bit of company.
 
When a childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up.
 
In Moore’s inimitable, haunting style, this seemingly simple but in fact multi-layered narrative unfolds with compelling assurance. Moving between memories of childhood and Lewis’s current life of cosy habit, plot twists thicken and weave with stealthily increasing tension. Always unexpected, sparely written and beautifully crafted, He Wants deftly dissects the themes of loneliness, anxiety, the weight of recollection and the complex nature of friendship and family ties. A surprising, lingering and intensely moving tale from one of our most exciting novelists.

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