Slim but eventful ... Squarely, cinematically plotted: There’s a flare gun that appears early on with a Chekhovian nod, and a fraught climactic sequence that treads heavily between fever dream and magic realism.
The premise seems humdrum and unpromising, but there is plenty of intrigue ... So much of the drama is simply in the tension of Wood’s sentences, which hook you from the beginning ... The result is a fiercely atmospheric novel that engages the senses.