The Water Star – review by John Tague 

The Water Star

A New Start in Finsbury JOHN TAGUE TLS Philip Casey THE WATER STAR 434pp. Picador. £14.99 0 330 37190 8 Philip Casey’s second novel, The Water Star, confronts the central Irish experience of the twentieth century: exile. It is distinguished by the finely wrought lyricism that has characterized much of his poetry. His first novel, [...]

Reviews of The Water Star 

The Water Star

Casey is a poet and a playwright; he has a poet’s delicate ear and a playwright’s eye for direction . The tale that unfolds in this thick, satisfying volume is not particularly complex – any more than the circumstances of any of our lives are complex, which is to say, infinitely and infinitesimally so. Through [...]