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A review by catherine888
Away by Jane Urquhart
3.0
I don’t really know why most of the characters in this book did the things they did. I didn’t understand why they loved the people they loved or what their motivations were (after the first section, where the motivation was famine obviously). It felt like a bunch of random people with no inner emotional lives doing random things.
I thought the whole novel was going to explore the Irish mythology and got interested in it and then it turned out that that was a pretty insignificant part of the book. It was a major issue in the novel and then magically it just wasn’t an issue anymore? I don’t understand what the point of that was.
The parts set in Canada felt like a Canadian winter: grey, cold, dry and never-ending. So I guess that captured it well.
I thought the whole novel was going to explore the Irish mythology and got interested in it and then it turned out that that was a pretty insignificant part of the book. It was a major issue in the novel and then magically it just wasn’t an issue anymore? I don’t understand what the point of that was.
The parts set in Canada felt like a Canadian winter: grey, cold, dry and never-ending. So I guess that captured it well.