Candlemoth |
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 | For the whole of Candlemoth - the first of Roger Ellory's novels I've read - I lost entirely the sense of "reading", I was in the novel with the characters, watching them from a distance. It's a measure of the authenticity of the writing that sometimes - during the prison scenes especially - that became distinctly uncomfortable and unsettling. I wanted to look away, and couldn't. Meet Mr West. I haven't forgotten him yet. He'll probably haunt the next three novels I read.
And sometimes too, I felt like an intruder. Young Danny's fleeting love affair with Caroline is one highlight of the book for me, there's a delicacy and fragility about the writing which reflects perfectly an adult's reminiscence of first love. Everything was perfect, every detail is still in Danny's mind, like the pattern on the candlemoth's wings. He remembers the sound of ice in the lemonade glass, and that she smelt of "juniper and toothpaste and a sweet sense of beauty". Another highlight is a ... read more.
Written by Roger Jon Ellory.
Published 17 July 2003.
Published by Orion.
rrp £9.99.
352 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0752856677
ISBN-13: 9780752856674 | |
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