Review: Fiction: The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker
Harvill Secker,€16.74Available with free P&Pon www.kennys.ie orby calling 091 709350
'Of the 10 fat white geese in the field next to the drive, only seven were left a couple of weeks later. All she found of the other three were feathers and one orange foot.' This diminishing flock of honking geese is how the passing of time is marked in this gripping new novel by IMPAC award-winning author Gerbrand Bakker.
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