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|title=The Enchanted

|sort=Enchanted, The

|publisher=W&N

|date=March 2014

|summary=''The Green Mile'' for 2014, as one Death Row inmate observes another's past being investigated for the chance of reprieve. You might feel like you need a reprieve from the gloom at times, but this book knows just what it's doing.

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Death Row, in a prison somewhere in the rural US. It's an old prison too, where the modern sensors and security will never be seen, and where those waiting years for their final, final appeals – or for the closing act in their life – remain underground, in dank cells that have no mod-cons, and can easily flood when the rains raise the water table too high. It's where a man called York is seeing out his days, and whereas a female investigator is trying her hardest to get evidence that might see his sentence quashed or changed, he is saying it should be carried out forthwith. While she tries to piece together what got him there and what made him take that terminal decision, shadows of her own dark background are forced to move into sight. All this is told us by the omniscient narration of another man on Death Row, thanks to two heinous crimes…