
BOOK REC’: For those, like me, who read Islington Crocodiles many years ago and have been waiting for Paul Meloy‘s first novel, well, the wait is almost over as The Night Clock is published in about eight weeks. I’ve been lucky enough to read the manuscript and thought . . .
“To write in such detail about life’s potential for awfulness, and some of the awful people in it – all of the frustration, pettiness, unfairness, injustice, wretchedness, and tragedy – while constantly b…ringing the reader close to a mad, ecstatic, life affirming laugh, is a rare skill. So how do you entwine humour and tragedy without one detracting from the other? Ask Paul Meloy, because he’s done it in The Night Clock.
“To write in such detail about life’s potential for awfulness, and some of the awful people in it – all of the frustration, pettiness, unfairness, injustice, wretchedness, and tragedy – while constantly b…ringing the reader close to a mad, ecstatic, life affirming laugh, is a rare skill. So how do you entwine humour and tragedy without one detracting from the other? Ask Paul Meloy, because he’s done it in The Night Clock.