A review by maccymacd
The Sing of the Shore by Lucy Wood

3.0

I think 'Diving Belles' was a hard book to beat. Lucy Wood captured the strange, eerie and melancholic world of Cornwall with all its myths and wonders to a point. I went days where I couldn't stop thinking of the stories. Here, in 'The Sing of the Shore' she has tried to follow this up. Most of the stories are interesting, and link each other very faintly, however they don't seem to have the same strangeness as the previous book. I enjoyed the book as a compilation of short stories, but I couldn't rate it as highly for the unique weirdness I had felt in the earlier collection. The stories involve people who are lost. who are grieving, who are lonely, who are angry and who are outsiders, but they all have a similar connection. I think I would read another of Lucy Wood's collections if she wrote one, to see what the contrast between the books would be - I still think she is a very talented writer.