Philip Casey

“An ordin­ary, almost staid, couple are over­whelmed by crisis when their third child is born. The book starts off fairly ordin­ary and staid too, but this makes the crisis all the more real­istic when it hits and easier to sym­path­ize with. Once the new baby is born, the writ­ing becomes sens­it­ive and involving, the char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion sharper and deeper and it’s pos­sible to really care about what has happened and what …Read more