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|title=Hawthorn and Child

|author=Keith Ridgway

|publisher=Granta

|date=July 2012

|website=http://www.keithridgway.com

|summary=This book tries hard to keep you off balance and disturbed. Unfortunately, it never keeps its attention on one thing long enough to make you care, all I was left with was mild irritation.

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Hawthorn and Child is a series of standalone events tenuously linked by the people involved, written as a stream of consciousness. The title characters are middle ranking policemen and the events are mostly crime related but honestly, sometimes it’s hard to tell. While the first half of that premise is a good thing, the stream of consciousness makes it hard to engage with.