Book Title:The Trick to Time ISBN-13:9780241207109 Author:Kit de Waal Publisher:Viking Guideline Price:€14.99Mixing personal and political plights in her 2016 debut My Name is Leon resulted in an international bestseller for Kit de Waal. Her self-professed “tiny story” about a mixed-race boy taken into care had a big impact on readers and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. As with her debut, de Waal takes an oblique look at the wider landscape by focusing on the personal misfortunes of her characters. The burden of dealing with other people’s problems is tackled head on by de Waal and the unfairness of Mona’s situation will resonate. De Waal, however, makes it her own in a novel whose outward simplicity belies its tricksy, troubled tale.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2018 04:18 UTC