![]() There is money to be made in Brookes’ Swansea and many of the characters are engaged in such a variety of scams that the lot of the policeman seems to be particularly difficult, even nightmarish. The story is set in a vividly drawn portrait of Victorian Swansea, a teeming town whose social divide provides a constant underlying theme. ‘A Swansea Child’ is exactly this sort of feast, a veritable plum pudding of a novel full of rich delights. ![]() Slim volumes of exquisitely crafted prose leave me cold: my tastes were, I think, formed by the sprawling novels of the 19th Century and to me, if you enjoy a book, you feel cheated if there is not an absolute wealth of character, subplot and narrative twist on which to feast. ![]() ![]() I have never been a minimalist, as visitors to my cluttered home are immediately aware: I do not subscribe to the concept that less is more and I have never seen a lily I do not wish to gild. A Swansea Chid is published by Cambria Books ![]()
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