SaltwashALL WILL BE FORGIVEN, IF ALL CAN BE FORGOTTEN. The dilapidated seaside town of Saltwash isn't a place that Tom Shift would have chosen to come to at all, let alone on such a bleak November afternoon. But his new friend, Oliver Keele, has insisted on meeting for dinner at the Castle Hotel, where the owners, the Paleys, try their best to cling on to the glory days. Both terminally ill, Tom and Oliver have been bound by the saddest of circumstances,

Writing with candour

Should justice always be served - and if so

with its foggy streets

‘If it’s true escapism you’re after

truth shifts and slips and the lingering legacy of the Troubles threatens the present once again

He can only rely on his blunt Scottish sergeant Rannoch and Bellamy the negro marine who is fighting his own battle for recognition and honour against the inate savage racism of his fellow redcoats

command the respect of his community

‘Spectacular

'Evocative and unsettling

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the very soil

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