5/29/2023 0 Comments The Singing Stone by O.R. Melling![]() ![]() Into their lives stumbles a young man from New York named Harry, who is in Ireland to ply his trade as a magician, and finds himself at a loose end when the theatre he’s engaged to work at cancels his string of performances without notice. Tina is a seamstress who makes costumes for the stage and Joe is a cab-driver with big plans for his future, and Tina’s. Two young people, Tina and Joe, who have been friends since their earliest days, are hard-scrabbling their way through life using whatever talents they possess. It’s the late nineteenth century in Dublin. It’s a complex story in the hands of a master craftswoman, and it’s utterly absorbing. If this makes it sound like a mess, then forgive my muddled prose, because it most assuredly isn’t. It is, very resolutely, itself, and it sits just outside of definition. It has a bit of everything – mystery, suspense, Gothic horror, the supernatural, science fiction, historical fiction, romance – and yet it’s more than any of this. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m in a muddle as to how to even begin to describe this book. ![]()
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