Revue de presse :
Ridgway's best compositions can be breathtakingly unpredictable ... At his best, Ridgway is unapologetically strange. And the writing is perfectly assured and elegant. --Scarlett Thomas, Guardian
This is a detective novel in which the mysteries of people's lives threaten to overshadow mysteries born of criminal activity ... The real subject of the novel, perhaps, is how mysterious we are to one another and how lives are damaged, sometimes irreparably, by the gaps of comprehension. Ridgway, a Dublin author who lived in north London for more than a decade, writes these interlocking stories with the keen sense of place and lucid, pared-down prose of a good crime novel, which makes the more outlandish deviations from the genre even more arresting ... No clear answers are forthcoming, but that doesn't make the novel any less engaging ... This unusual detective story takes the wisdom of his observation on board, and runs with it. --Observer
Everything about this vibrant, wonderfully written novel is alive, funny and deeply troubled.
It s brilliantly well done, as is everything in this muted technical tour de force ... Read Hawthorn & Child. Better still read it twice: it s that real, that good, that true. --Irish Times
Présentation de l'éditeur :
Hawthorn and Child are mid-ranking detectives tasked with finding significance in the scattered facts. They appear and disappear in the fragments of this book along with a ghost car, a crime boss, a pick-pocket, a dead racing driver and a pack of wolves. The mysteries are everywhere, but the biggest of all is our mysterious compulsion to solve them. In Hawthorn & Child, the only certainty is that we've all misunderstood everything.
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