Coming this summer... FOLK, a novel about finding your place in the world

Longlisted for the McKitterick Prize whose previous recipients include Douglas Stuart and Louise Kennedy, my hotly anticipated debut novel FOLK is a 1990s rave-era tale of friendship, love and misadventure in a society that’s on the turn.

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Break free from the sea of sameness.

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“How shall I express this lament,
This sensation of death
Which dissolves
As it courses through my limbs?

How shall I express in song
This sensation of becoming
Which releases
You, oh spirit, as it blows?”

He lamented, he sang,
Fearful of annihilation,
Ecstatic with transfiguration,
Until life fled.

That is the meaning of the swan’s song!

Source: schubertsong.uk
original German text translated by Malcolm Wren.
Republished here by kind permission. All Rights reserved.

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