The Water Star – review by Erica Wagner
The scarring runs deeper than the flattened landscape in Philip Casey’s novel, set in postwar London Washed ashore in a bomb-damaged land THE WATER STAR By Philip Casey Picador, £14.99 ISBN 0 330 371 908 The water star is a reflection: imperfect, but beautiful in itself. Its darklit image shivers in a breath of wind, [...]