Waterline by Ross Raisin: Review
A desolate tale of grief and guilt on society’s margins by one of Yorkshire's finest young writers
In his blistering debut,
God’s Own Country, Ross Raisin used his
native Yorkshire as the backdrop to the story of a rural sociopath run amok.
There was no more startling work of fiction published in 2008.
The great shipbuilding industry of the Clyde long since ceased, Mick is too
flattened by grief to return to his current job as a minicab driver. Once
his sons have left following Cathy’s funeral, Mick finds himself in stasis.
Half out of his mind with loss, he suffers acute guilt at the manner of
Cathy’s death and his perceived responsibility for it – though he also
viciously blames Cathy’s brother, a former shipyard manager, for concealing
the dangers of the lethal substance which has insidiously cut short so many
lives.
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