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Joanne O’Leary: Sara Baume, 4 January 2018
A Line Made by Walking
by Sara Baume.
Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.99, February 2017,978 1 78515 041 8 Show More
by Sara Baume.
Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.99, February 2017,
“... Sara Baume
’s first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015), took the form of a love letter from Ray, a 57-year-old recluse, to his vicious rescue dog One Eye. Her new book, A Line Made by Walking, is narrated by Frankie, a 26-year-old artist who has a nervous breakdown, and stows away in her dead grandmother’s bungalow ‘on the brow of a yawning valley’ in rural Ireland ... ”