21 of 22 children in a
rural village die in a disaster. By chance, the 'wrong' child, Dog
Evans, lives. Crippled with survivor's guilt, his parents abandon Evans
to a feral life at the margins. He is shunned by those left behind, for
whom his presence is a daily insult, a reminder of unbearable loss.
We learn what took place and its shocking consequences, both for Dog Evans
and the wider community. Gornell's forensic gaze dissects the lives of
the bereaved, fractured relationships and existences frozen the day
their children died...
Deborah Cutter, separated from her husband John,
numbs her pain with alcohol and sex. Local postman Nugget holds tight to
the hope that the Evans house contains valuable secrets. Parish priest
Father Wittin is an embarrassing irrelevance... As grief turns to rage,
the villagers' insatiable desire for catharsis in the form of one final
blood sacrifice becomes unstoppable.
The master of 'rural noir',
Barry Gornell has created a mesmerising, heartbreaking examination of
rural life with a remarkable note of hope within the darkness.
ID: F - 2059
F - 2059 | The Wrong Child by Barry Gornell
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