The Slowworm's Song Romesh Gunesekara The characters and environment are

The characters and environment are powerfully realised and Martyn's internal dialogue is both and authentic and thought-provoking with shades of Holden Caulfield

and his every move is watched: a two-way mirror in his bedroom

and the conspirators were arrested by the Gestapo

At the Post Office

And after a series of assassinations an unthinkable question emerges: could an Englishman be behind the plot

The Slowworm's Song Romesh Gunesekara The characters and environment areBy the Costa Award winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving. An ex soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above