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Hinterland by Caroline Brothers (view source)
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Having said this, emotion isn’t laid on with a trowel. The story develops as it develops, without melodrama, giving the reader the choice and ability to feel their own emotion without apparent author manipulation. There may well be manipulation but it doesn’t show – a rare and welcome skill in today’s literary world.
This is not an easy read but it is a wonderful book. I meant to read a couple of pages after an evening out... I couldn’t put it down and read the whole lot. It holds you whilst the pages turn and the horror and frustration of this heart-rending journey unfold before you. You should read this book, you ''and '' anyone who has ever thought that ‘all 'all immigrants have it easy’easy'; anyone who has ever mused over ‘sending 'sending them all back’back'. Books like this change hearts and ideas. For the sake of the Aryans and Kabirs on the road at the moment, we can only hope.
I would like to thank Bloomsbury Publishing for giving thebookbag.co.uk a copy for review.